Jun 15, 2006
The relaunch of Netscape.com
Every since the once proud browser fell by the wayside, Netscape.com has seemed to lack a sense of direction. Even after Netscape was bought by AOL, the home page still seemed to be just a generic news site containing stories from other sources. However, there’s now a new site, Netscape beta, which appears to be a clone of Digg, the popular technology news site.
I’m not sure what Netscape has to offer beyond what is already provided by the likes of Digg, especially given the number of ads they’re showing on each page (the ones in the middle of a block of comments are particularly annoying in my opinion). However, they do employ several full and part time editors to pick the best stories for each section, so perhaps it won’t be as vulnerable to mob rule as Digg sometimes seems to be.
I also find it ironic that the current top story on the site is AOL copies Digg. 
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