September 9th, 2007
Netscape Pulls the Plug on their Digg Clone
By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews
Rumors have been flying about Netscape pulling the plug on its social networking type news site, and it looks like they are true, although according to Netscape, they will open a new social networking site at the same time.
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.
The decision to redirect the current Netscape.com site is based on that feedback and our desire to better serve our community. Source: Netscape Blog
We Say: What they really mean is that they weren’t making any money, and they have to fold up shop.
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