New Netscape.com = Digg.com Plus

AOL, owners of Netscape.com, have approved a retool of the portal that will have a Digg.com look-and-feel, but cover a broader range of topics than the tech-focused Digg. (Although Digg itself announced it was broadening a bit just last week.) The new Netscape is in public beta right now, just reaching 1,000 members as I’m typing. Users enter small blog-like entries to interesting news stories, which can then be voted on by the community. Those with the most votes hit the home page. Jason Calacanis, who sold AOL Weblogs.com, Inc. a while back, is running the new Netscape and says he’ll have a team of bloggers who follow the most popular stories with interviews and on-the-street reporting.

June 16, 2006 · Filed Under General Stuff