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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.