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AOL-Netscape launches social news, Digg copy

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Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It�s not exactly a Digg clone. Submitted stories are voted on in much the same way, and the more votes a story gets the higher it appears in a category home page or on Netscape.com itself. However, the top few spots in each category and on the home page are determined by an �anchor� – essentially an editor choosing from stories moving up the ranks.

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Posted by Haitham Sabbah on Thursday, June 15, 2006, at 10:25 pm. Filed under (Mis) Use of Technology, Internet 'n Computers. Tagged , , , . Follow any responses to this post with its comments RSS feed. Comments are closed, but you can trackback from your blog.

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    AOL-Netscape launches social news, Digg copy

    [...]Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation today with a portal focused on community-driven news. It?s[...]