Category Archives: Netscape

RIP Netscape 1994-2008 (… The Browser, That Is)

The half-dozen or so users of the Netscape browser will be sad to hear that AOL is finally ending the historic browser’s run as of its latest release, which is 9.0.0.6, and was released February 20th.
With the latest version being upgraded, Netscape will alert users that they can migrate to Flock or Firefox thereafter, according [...]

Netscape’s Traffic Takes A Dive After It Splits Off Social News Into Propeller?

About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how *Netscape* would really fare now that its social news component was on its own.
Well, a month has come and gone, and [...]

Propeller Propels Itself Out Of The … Harbour, I Guess

The “Social” Netscape has finally and officially moved to its new url, Propeller.com as of today. The official blog states that we should expect some growing pains, particularly as it sorts out its problem with spam.  For example, I suspect  *any* post regarding tramadol is *probably* spam.  It also says that there are new [...]

* Propeller An Apt Name — Its Time To Sink Or Swim, Lads

Yes, its a few days late, but a few last thoughts about Netscape is moving its ’social’ component to Propeller.com, namely that I “dig” the new name (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), I think its a good idea that its getting its own domain name, and now, its time for it to actually sink or [...]

Netscape Parties’ Like Its 1999: AOL Quietly Crushes Calacanis’s “Social” Legacy

Update:  Apparently official communications were such that Scouts were in fact told of the upcoming changes.

Some sad (or happy, depending on your point of view) news coming out of AOL this morning: they plan to scuttle Jason Calacanis’s social legacy by moving the “social” version of netscape (read: “you can vote on stories … like [...]

Netscape Is Doing Ok … Props To Them

So much for “copying Digg is going to be their death knell”. 10 million uniques a month? That’s something to clap for. It certainly looks like it pulled them out of the nosedive they were heading over … about 5 years.  What’s that, I’m referring to?  Netscape, silly.