AOL Targets Digg, YouTube With New Netscape Site

Dotnaught writes "AOL has re-launched its Netscape.com portal as a place where user participation is balanced by moderator control. The renovated site will feature community-driven news and user-submitted video, guided by editors called anchors. "The hive mind sometimes doesn't do a thorough job," says Jason Calacanis, CEO of Weblogs, Inc., a blog network acquired last year by AOL."

As Yoda says

[Rob T Firefly]

Fear leads to anchors, anchors lead to hate..

Targetting Slashdot, too?

[DikSeaCup]

If they're targetting Digg (which I've never bothered to go to), aren't they targetting Slashdot somewhat too? Probably not a good idea though ... the editors just need to post two or three "netscape.com" stories a day. We'll see just how capable their site is at handling traffic ...

Ackkk it's recursive

[technoextreme]

I click on the Netscape headline about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg which links back to the Netscape article about how it's a ripoff of Digg which leads to an article about how Netscape is ripping off of Digg. Also, Netscape is using those stupid popup adds that get around Firefox.

Aol copies digg

[minus_273]

this is the top story [netscape.com] right now. which is kind of fitting

and hate leads to...

[Ritz_Just_Ritz]

A project fork. :)

The Mind

[intangible]

For some reason I read the article summary as this:

'The AOL has re-gurgitated its Netscape.com portal as a place where user
participation is monitored by master-controllers. The renovated site
will feature minion-driven news and peon-submitted video, guided
by godlike editor entities called anchors. "The hive mind sometimes
doesn't do a thorough job", says The Queen, Overlord of Weblogs, Inc.,
a mind-control network acquired last year by the AOL.'

Don't ask me why...

Re:Pointless: Fark content meets Digg layout...

[The_REAL_DZA]

What it all boils down to is still the quality of the comments that the users post.

YEAH!