Say Goodbye To Netscape Social
It’s official. Netscape has announced that they’re going back to providing mainstream news. In fact, the new site is already up. The new portal can be found at netscape.aol.com . Traffic to the current site will be redirected to the new portal. The social news site is still up as of this writing and stories are still being submitted and voted on.
Tom Drapeau posted on Netscape’s official blog:
We received some feedback that people really do associate the Netscape brand with providing mainstream news that is editorially controlled. In fact, we specifically heard that our users do have a desire for a social news experience, but simply didn’t expect to find it on Netscape.com.
Sounds like a spin job to me. TechCrunch seems to think so too.
The news portal is up, and Netscape has yet to announce specific plans for their social news site. Don’t hold your breath 
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September 8th, 2007 04:39
I typically associate Netscape with failed projects.
September 8th, 2007 06:22
@Kyle:
Sad but true buddy hehe
September 8th, 2007 13:21
I’m so glad about this change. They’re just too many irrelevant stories and voting going on.
September 9th, 2007 02:48
@Clara:
I think that was one of the biggest factors for the change
September 9th, 2007 12:19
I am actually disappointed by this news. I received a respectable amount of traffic on a few of my blogs from Netscape. While I never made it to the front page it did provide a reasonable amount of residual referrals. I will be sad to see it go.
September 9th, 2007 15:02
@Greg:
I was hoping to get some traffic from Netscape too but I guess I’ll have to look elsewhere now.
September 13th, 2007 00:28
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