I wish these guys luck but I'm skeptical about how much traction they'll get. There is a lot of inertia with Web properties. Big sites take years to die. Hell,

I wish these guys luck but I'm skeptical about how much traction they'll get. There is a lot of inertia with Web properties. Big sites take years to die. Hell, Myspace still has ~60 million users (You can't explain that). Despite all the clamour about the "AOL Way" all evidence seemed to point to AOL being fairly hands off when it came to Engadget (according to Patel and others) so I'm not sure there was ever really any problem to solve other than chafing under the corporate yoke and a "grass is greener" desire for something smaller they built together. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Like I said: good luck guys. It's a crowded space so you may well need it.