Posts Tagged with ‘netscape’

Ever since the “human-powered search engine” Mahalo launched (and even in the months preceding launch), the startup has dealt with its share of skepticism from critics. Of course the founder, Jason Calacanis (formerly of Netscape/AOL and Weblogs Inc.), has dealt with his share of criticism before, but it seems as if progress on Mahalo is being closely monitored by the blogging community as if it is doomed to fail.
Just today, Allen Stern of Center Networks has posted about the [...]

If you have been a user of Netscape (the social news site), then you have heard about the planned changes being made by AOL to revert Netscape.com back to being a basic web portal.
Well, those changes have gone into effect today, as the successor to the social news site made its debut with a new URL and name, Propeller.com.
If you are looking for new features or innovations, look elsewhere, because there is nothing new here, other than the logo and [...]

Just over a month ago, we told you of AOL’s planned retirement of the social news structure of Netscape. Just a week ago, the website was officially removed for good. Yesterday, AOL announced its plans to enter the social news game once more.
I guess the company’s not giving up on its dream of profiting off a Digg clone quite yet.
I don’t know whether to call it a reinvention of the Calacanis model or simply a reinstitution of what was [...]

There are several different social bookmarking sites around, and many people use more than one of them on a daily basis. Keeping track of all of these account can be time-consuming. Until now, there has not really been a service that aims to make this task easier.
Notifir is an interesting new tracking service, which has just gone public, that plans to simplify the process of managing and keeping track of social bookmarking accounts from one central location.
Eventually, the service [...]

You may remember Paul Glazowski's Netscape article last month, which mentioned that AOL was considering axing the social news service for a more traditional portal.
Now, there are more details available about the current Netscape.com, the coming features, and what could happen down the road.
Yesterday, TechCrunch revealed that Netscape will probably become more like the portal, while the current social news site could move to a new domain.
Netscape has been criticized for being a "Digg-clone," but I do not [...]

It is my usual pleasure to report on the startups I am particularly fond of. That is why today I will share with you exciting news from YooRL, the web service that permits you to create a special link from any URL and share it with your friends by any means whatsoever to further track how the link propagates on the world map. The small Russian startup provides a totally new way to deal with how you share the links. [...]

I was just reading a short article by a friend about the use of the term "Digg Killer" and how it is used too often and inappropriately. We all have a tendency to compare things, but why is it that everything has to be a Digg or Google killer? I guess there is nothing wrong with comparisons and they are even helpful when trying to describe a difficult concept or startup, but maybe we should all spend more time describing "the thing" than [...]

Word in the Valley has it that some execs at AOL are thinking of killing the social news system established some time ago at Netscape.com to rip off compete with Digg. Apparently, it hasn’t reached the level of success they believed it would many months back, and think it’d be better simply to direct Netscape.com visitors to the traditional portal originally established at the domain, rather than having to seek out Netscape.AOL.com.
Here’s to hoping the rumors are [...]

Today Me.dium is announcing full compatibility with IE-7. Me.dium has been available for Firefox and Flock since February and the Explorer version has been much anticipated. In addition, the developers have created a widget that applies Me.dium's “real time” window to blogs and other pages.
The new widget may well steal the news, as this tool extends Me.dium's “Web discovery” aspect to other sites. Bloggers and site owners can now observe traffic patterns, visitors and friends in and around their pages. Non-Medium [...]