Netscape Goes Down - Hate To Say I Forgot To Tell You So
It’s easy enough to yell “I knew it” after something has happened. But, the news of Netscape’s social news portal is not going to be Netscape’s front page any more doesn’t exactly surprise me.
The truth is, me and other reporters have mentioned Netscape, Shoutwire and many other competitors to Digg mostly out of courtesy. The cold, harsh reality is that there’s only place for the select few on the top of the social content arena, and at this time those are Digg and Reddit. Everyone else is either stagnating, dying, slowing down, or merely lingering.
Currently, the Netscape social site is gone and it’s not really clear when and where will it reappear. I doubt that many people will be upset too much about this. The new page, primarily located at netscape.aol.com is a boring old portal affair and it will probably also get shut down in a year or two.
It’s a weird phenomenon that’s got me puzzled for quite a long time. Why is there place for everyone in, say, social networking, where hundreds of networks thrive, but it’s so damn hard to create a new Digg? I’d say that it takes a great site, an enthusiastic core community which will carry the site over through its gestation period, and a bunch of luck. I guess those three things are simply not that easy to find.
September 7th, 2007 at 4:34 am
[…] For whatever reason, Netscape just never seemed to be able to get much traction, so we will never know if any of those features makes sense for a social news site — and that’s a shame. AOL, Digg, Netscape | Share This | Related links […]
September 7th, 2007 at 4:36 am
[…] For whatever reason, Netscape just never seemed to be able to get much traction, so we will never know if any of those features makes sense for a social news site — and that’s a shame. aol, digg, netscape | Share This […]
September 8th, 2007 at 6:29 pm
Hey! Don’t you forget StumbleUpon
September 9th, 2007 at 10:48 am
@Muhammad: heh, Stumbleupon is a bit different than both Reddit and Digg. It doesn’t really need a focused core group of supporters to thrive.
October 11th, 2009 at 7:07 am
Seems very good info. Great job !
November 11th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
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