Netscape
Netscape, who?! Your probably thinking of that web browser that Microsoft crushed a decade ago, but it's actually been re-introduced as a social news site that can drive traffic to your website, but won't bring your servers to it's knees just quite yet.
Netscape: One Year Down The Road
Written by Muhammad Saleem on June 17, 2007 | 278 comments
June 15th marked the 1-year anniversary of the new Netscape, or as the 'social edition' of Netscape. Much has changed in the meantime, and here's a look at how the social news portal has evolved and adapted over the year.
Netscape Navigator 9 Released - The Social Browser Has Landed
Written by Muhammad Saleem on June 6, 2007 | 7 comments
The 1994 iteration of the Netscape Navigator browser was named as the number one technology-related product of all time by PC World. It wasn't until the browser was released by Netscape Communications that the internet revolution began. And after over a decade, with today's release of the 2007 iteration of the Netscape Navigator browser version 9.0, Netscape brings to you the social media revolution.
Beginner's Guide to Netscape
Written by Muhammad Saleem on May 8, 2007 | 8 comments
In an effort to help our readers completely understand the various social media sites out there, we have decided to do a series of 'beginner's guides' dedicated to teaching you how to get your feet wet. Following in the footsteps of Neil's beginner's guide to Digg and based on the same model, here's your beginner's guide to Netscape.
Netscape's Fatal Flaw
Written by Muhammad Saleem on April 22, 2007 | 3 comments
Every social news site has its strong points and its weak points. Netscape, while manages to get many things right, has a fatal flaw that may eventually destroy the community aspect of the site if they keep allowing people to abuse it without any consequences.
The Importance of MetaJournalism, Editorial Control in Social News
Written by Muhammad Saleem on April 18, 2007 | 3 comments
A piece of commentary by Li Evans, pointing out that Newsvine beat Digg in reporting the VA Tech shooting made the rounds yesterday. While people have largely been discussing the merits of socially driven news sites based on the speed with which they report the news, one thing is glaringly missing: an emphasis on the completeness and the accuracy of the news.
Netscape Removes Homepage Stories Counts
Written by Muhammad Saleem on April 4, 2007 | 6 comments
In a step that is somewhat similar to Digg's removal of the top users list, Netscape recently announced that it will stop counting, displaying in user profiles, and taking into account when assessing user rankings, the statistic of 'number of stories submitted by a user and later promoted to the homepage'.
Optimizing Firefox for Netscape.com
Written by Muhammad Saleem on March 17, 2007 |
Surfing socially driven sites can be informative and entertaining at the same time, but sometimes it can also be a little cumbersome. To help you make the best of your socially driven experience, this three-part series will help you optimize Firefox for the best socially driven experience possible.
Netscape's anti-spam efforts are working
Written by Muhammad Saleem on February 28, 2007 | 6 comments
A little while ago Neil Patel covered an article I had written about how users were abusing Netscape's site-mail feature to spam other members for votes. A few weeks after that Netscape tweaked their site-mail feature to see if it would prevent system abuse. Here are my findings after a month of the feature being in place.
Getting On Netscape's Home Page
Written by Muhammad Saleem on February 2, 2007 | 2 comments
A few days ago Neil reported on an article that I had written about how a few users were abusing Netscape.com's site-mail feature to get their content promoted to the home page. While the feature on its own is a great idea, the abuse made it almost unbearable to use. Netscape has announced what appears to be a first step towards combating this problem.
Spamming Netscape for Votes
Written by Neil Patel on January 19, 2007 | 3 comments
Muhammad Saleem had an interesting article on how Netscape is starting to become abused and spammed by users. A while back Netscape added a messaging feature that allowed users to send messages to each other, but now it is being used as a method for soliciting votes.
Spamming Netscape
Written by Neil Patel on November 30, 2006 | 2 comments
Spamming on Digg has been getting a lot of attention lately because of URLs getting banned and bad stories making the homepage, but no one is really talking about spam on Netscape. In the last month or two Netscape released a friends page similar to Digg's where you can see what all of your friends submitted which allows you to vote on those stories with ease. This clearly opens up the door for spammers.
What you need to know about digg and Netscape
Written by Neil Patel on September 28, 2006 | 8 comments
Many people have been using digg and the new Netscape and think that they are exactly the same, but they are not. Both of them are community driven websites, but there are many differences between them that affect how well the stories you submit perform on them.
Using digg and Netscape to get traffic
Written by Neil Patel on September 19, 2006 | 22 comments
In the last couple of months more and more bloggers have been catching onto the power of digg and Netscape. Bloggers have realized that if they get their blog on the homepage of digg or Netscape thousands of visitors will flood into their blog within minutes. So the question is, how can digg and Netscape be leveraged for traffic, and what results can you expect from them?
Netscape's digg clone, Better then most
Written by Neil Patel on June 15, 2006 |
Netscape Beta launched last night, it has a similar concept to digg, but seems to be more oriented towards the masses. When I first saw it, I was impressed on how well they optimized it for search engines.
