It's been known internally for awhile now, but it's time for me to transition off of the Netscape.com project and back to Blogsmith. As some of you know, Blogsmith was the project that I worked on prior to Netscape and is something that I thoroughly enjoy. It's the CMS that powers Weblogs, Inc., TMZ, and a host of other major sites in and out of AOL.

The Netscape project has been an amazing experience and I am thankful for having had the opportunity to participate. My involvement with the project related more to redesigning things quickly and getting it out the door on time. Tom, Trey, Craig, and Andy have been amazing to work with, and if it weren't for them, there's no way we would have succeed in that. Michael Rhing and Gavin Hall were also huge key components in all that, and aren't mentioned quite as much as they should be. The entire AOL hosting team we deal with as well has just been absolutely great. Forward looking, Chris Finke has come on board and I think he's going to be a fantastic addition. Tom will be taking the lead position, which I think is a perfect fit as well.

Next week a host of new changes are coming online at Netscape. Tons of bug fixes, polish, and security fixes (ahem..;) to help give this thing some legs. Trey and Tom both have busted ass trying to get it ready and out the door. I can only hope that we can one day switch the design over to Andy's double secret uber layout.. but.. thats probably a bit further a way. I really think a fresh design, combined with finishing the feature list, will give Netscape the unique personality and identity that it needs.

Also, we have a number of open dev positions on the netscape team -- if you're interested, send me your Emurse link and I'll throw your name into the mix (alex at newnetscape.com).