Jim Hu and Jeff Pelline discuss Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo and the strategy behind the purchase.

Gnuhoo, an interesting experiment which might work.

Danny Sullivan discusses the launch of NewHoo and explains the volunteer editor basis of the directory.

Danny Sullivan discusses Netscape’s purchase of NewHoo and provides comparisons to the Yahoo Directory.

Article discusses the Netscape purchase of NewHoo and the reaction from volunteer editors.

Matthew Broersma discusses the acquisition and compares the scalability of NewHoo’s volunteer community to Yahoo’s paid staff powered directory.

Discusses both Netscape and IBM releasing source code for their Gecko browser and Jikes Java compiler respectively. Netscape’s acquisition of NewHoo is mentioned along with their plans to rename it Open Directory Project.

Matthew Miller voices his concerns over GnuHoo using GNU as part of the directory name. GnuHoo changes its name to NewHoo.

A satirical look at the news, with a large element of fiction.

Netscape buys NewHoo.