Well, its official. Netscape’s Digg clone is gone.
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.
It’s been expected for a long time, and it doesn’t surprise me one bit. For starters the thing didn’t seem to get very popular (probably because it was advertised as well… a Digg-killer), and it seemed to be much easier to game than the other social media sites.
So, that’s it. Good riddance. Maybe Netscape will focus on becoming popular again instead of focusing on trying to kill other websites? Hah.
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