Tag: Netscape

AOL May Kill Their Netscape Digg Clone

Tags: Netscape + AOL + Digg

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 2 years 3 months ago; via techcrunch.com/2007/08/09...

AOL is thinking about doing away with the "New Netscape" and reverting all netscape.com traffic back to the old portal now found at netscape.aol.com.

According to Michael Arrington, AOL is considering killing off the “Digg Clone” social news site that they launched a little over a year ago at Netscape.com, and redirecting traffic to the Netscape portal instead. One source says it’s a done deal. Another says no final decisions have been made...

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Kevin Rose: Netscape's Model 'A Bad Idea,'

Tags: Kevin Rose + Digg + Netscape + Jason Calacanis

MarcoPolo
Posted by MarcoPolo 3 years 2 months ago; via blog.wired.com/monkeybite...

While speaking at the Future of Web Apps summit, Digg founder Kevin Rose reaffirmed his position in the debate over whether top users should be paid for their submissions, branding Netscape's model as "a bad idea."

"It's very important to us that there are no outside motivations for posting stories to Digg," Rose said. "When something makes it to the front page, the only motivation should be that the story was interesting to somebody, not that they were paid to do it."

Digg's competitor, Netscape.com, pays its top users around $1000 per...

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