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xodp · A Think Tank and Free Speech Forum.

This URL is currently under construction. When it is completed, it will provide access to the links which are currently listed on the XODP Yahoo! eGroup, links which one would otherwise be unable to access without becoming a member of the group.

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Friends of the XODP Yahoo! eGroup
A list of URLs that link to the XODP Yahoo! eGroup or one of the messages posted thereon. Some of these are friendly links; some of them aren't.

AOL's Bad Press
Media coverage that is critical of ODP, Netscape, and/or AOL.

Directory Database Technology
A collection of Web sites which offer software that can be used to create, organize, and/or maintain a directory style database of URLs. Includes links to freeware, shareware, open source software, proprietary software, and warez.

Open Content Links
A collection of Web sites that expound upon the ideals of Open Content.

Open Source
A collection of Web sites that expound upon the ideals of Open Source.

User-Built Directories
A clone of Richard Skrenta's ODP category for user-contributed directories.


  • Bookmark Managers
    An ODP collection of links to online services that store and sort bookmarks. The free services usually list all the bookmarks in a public directory, creating a web search directory with the users bookmarks.

  • Life After ODP
    XODP Editall netesq speaks out about his departure from ODP and invites inquiries and discussion about life after ODP.

  • Netscape's Open Directory Project
    The most successful open content directory on the Internet.

  • Observers
    An online community of disgruntled former AOL Community Leaders.

  • Open Content Information
    A collection of links to Web sites that champion the Open Content spin on the Open Source movement. Maintained by ODP Editall greenrd.

  • Open Directory Project Reviews
    ODP's own collection of links to Web sites that are Anti-ODP and Pro-ODP.

  • Slashdot
    "News for Nerds. Stuff that matters." The conscience of the Open Source Movement. Search for articles on GnuHoo, NewHoo, Dmoz, and ODP to see what those in the know think of the Open Directory Project.

  • Volunteer-Edited Web Directories
    An ODP collection of links that provides a shortlist of the pretenders to the throne currently claimed by ODP.

  • Why the Open Directory isn't Open
    An article by Andrew Goodman of Traffick.com critical of ODP's "self-aggrandizing rhetoric." Dated March 5, 2000.

  • netscape and aol
    Jamie Zawinski takes a parting shot at AOL, the company to which Netscape Communications "sold out."

  • nomo zilla
    Jamie Zawinski's public resignation and post mortem from the Netscape Communications Division of America Online and mozilla.org.

  • DoNotGo.com
    XODP Editor arttworks' "Better Way Directory" with discussion forums related to various user-built Indexing communities such as ODP.


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