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- thedove, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41the last thing I want is some aol writer/editor/blogger telling me what to think about a story. That's why I love digg, because it is free form.
- iSEPIC, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31yeah it's different alright, it has about 80 ads per square inch (just like the rest of the AOL land)
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30Once you have a taste of freedom and control, you can't go back. It's like moving in with your parents. After using Digg you get sick of blogs and other sites where an authority arbitrarily decides what you get to see.
- rodzilla, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Netscape is like the smelly old drunk uncle that wont go away, you've known him for years, but ya kinda wish he would dry up or just die already.
- Pokelicious, on 10/12/2007, -6/+20Whilst I love digg, I would probably not use a similar system for "real" news. Editors are there for a reason and in many cases are much better judges of worthy news stories than Joe Public.
- rishdeep, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Exactly, user-submitted stories here are usually riddled with spelling errors, inaccurate titles and propaganda ("awesome!" this and "incredible!" that). While this is tolerable for technology stories, it's quite different world news stories. Sometimes, just a little editorial control can be a good thing.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I was going to submit it last night, but 14 people already had done. Now there's 21 versions of essentially the same story.
"but I never saw it, so it never happened."
Ha ha.
The anti-evolutionists called for you- they want their philosophy back. And I've go the holocaust deniers on hold... - TeebZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5What are you talking about? The story was on the frontpage yesterday with 2740 diggs.
- silenceHR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4you know.... there is this thing called search and you could use it if you want to find some story.
and then...also... there is this thing "browse by category" that could remove all those Ubuntu news and get you right up Bill's...
but hey.... why use intelligence, when you can b|tch and troll. - dspR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5What about one of their previous stories? "AOL Copies Digg"?
http://tech.beta.netscape.com/story/2006/06/15/aol-copies-digg/ - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah. Also, digg is (mostly) for tech people. Most of the stories at that site are about which celebrity is sleeping with whose dog or about David Hasselhoff.
Also, one of the moderators said something like "there's only like 2 ads on each page. We probably could have 3 or 4"... Yep, just what they need. more ads. - Hummy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Some of us just can't get enough of David Hasslehoff.
- somerandomnerd, on 10/12/2007, -8/+12Sometimes I wonder if World War Three were to break out, would it make the front page of Digg?
As it doesn't involve Apple, Ubuntu, procrastination, AJAX or any of the other buzzwords, I'm guessing not. (Unless the headline was "Breaking news- most awesome war EVER!!!!") - lonseidman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Top story on Aol's Netscape.com as of 7:05 a.m. this morning (EDT): "mp3 recording: trying to cancel AOL."
http://news.beta.netscape.com/story/2006/06/15/mp3-recording-trying-to-cancel-aol/
Oh, the irony :). - siouxmoux, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5This new beta.netscape.com is No Digg killer. Over half of links on the front page don't work. And the page layout contents is unorganized.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4classic:
Netscape Anchor Commentary
Anchor
C.K.: "Since we're owned by AOL, we gave a call to our PR department and received the following statement from AOL spokesperson Nicholas Graham:
"At AOL, we have zero-tolerance for customer care incidents like this - which is deeply regrettable and also absolutely inexcusable. The employee in question violated our customer service guidelines and practices, and everything that AOL believes to be important in customer care - chief among them being respect for the member, and swiftly honoring their requests. This matter was dealt with immediately and appropriately, and the employee cited here is no longer with the Company."r whatever." - DougTanner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On that lame Netscape site, when you click on an article, it takes you to the add-heavy comments page. You have to specifically click on the tiny button to get to what you want to read, and even then it opens with the Netscape page in a frame on the left. Guess Netscape wanted to go back to the whole early 1990s frames look.
Lame. - fyngyrz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3And let us not forget how a story can get hundreds, even thousands of Diggs, and be censored off the front page, off of any publicly-visible page, in fact. It shows in your own comment history, but not, for instance, in the digging or comment history of your friends.
Hopefully Digg 3 will abandon censorship. And provide real threading... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5I used to be a die hard Slashdot fan. A few individual controlled the whole thing. They were often hypocrites with their own rules, punitive with those who said anything, & unavailable for meaningful contact. Their site, their rules, nothing wrong with that. At the end of the day Slashdot was a very popular persnol blog.
I like digg, it gives me something to slashdot, but I get a crack at the content as well. I also like the interface better. It isn't gratuitiously busy. The audience is a bit adolescent,arrogant, and provincial, but that is the internet.
I welcome new competitors, as with slashdot, it was nice to discover there was a choice if I didn't like what was going on.
It seems like usenet is being reinvented in web form, albeit with more content control. - heresy_fnord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Presumably the editors (called anchors by Netscape) are tracking what's popular and will give the best stories a little more juice. The editors can also choose to ignore stories that don't fit the editorial mission of the page."
C'mon, it doesn't sound half bad. On digg I constantly see people complain about articles not fitting into digg's preset list of content. Now I know Digg is expanding on it's content but you still see complaints. On netscape at least, there are people that can decide if something doesn't fit and it just won't go up. And on the flip side, if something would work well and it's not quite high enough, they can bump it.
Oh well, the grass is always greener on the other side eh? - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Digg isn't good for news, its just good for random stories. Has the story of B Gates retiring hit the front page yet or will it even get that far? Possibly, who knows? Perhaps it was on there for 5 mins and then got bumped off.
- WhackingDay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2So it's a combination of something crappy, somthing good, and something abysmal. That's a winning recipe.
- DenZ88, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's funny how AOL ran dry out of ideas since they started tacking random bull to everything they owned. Now they come up with something entirely new and innovative that looks just like Digg, except you "Vote"!!
sarcasm implied. - cptspanky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it basically like Digg Spy, a list of stories that are totally random with a few good ones in between, and all the links take you to another interim page with comments and another link you have to click before you actually get to the story. imagine having to use Digg spy all the time and not being able to use the Digg homepage. with frames. blech. ill pass.
- MastaBaba, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't anyone notice the similarity between the new Netscape and Newsvine?
- phlogiston99, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Netscape as a brand is about as cool as Napster. Wait. t used to be cool. Somebody bout it. Gutted the inside and now they think they are still cool.
Every time I hear AOL, I just want to FF tivo style. I just don't want to know. I don't care.
Digg killer?
Digg knock off cheap rip wannabe is more in line. At least, when you copy something, you better be making it better than the original (or at the very least as good) AOL is for dorks. Netscape is for dorks.
Viva La Digg! (eagerly awaiting V3 with broader content) - rishdeep, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Netscape Anchor CHAT
COMING SOON: Chat live 24/7 with Netscape anchors on the day's top stories!
Interesting. - wfolbrys, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I went to the beta of Netscape and read one article. It was something political and one of the netscape editors wrote a pithy but disparaging about some republican goofball and the reader whose comment supported him. anyway she got fired for that. and thats why ill always use digg.
- Anal0gKid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Netscape is just stealing everyone's content for their site. They don't direct link to the story. Instead, they take you to a second page with a story abstract, laden with tons of ads. /. and Digg direct link to the story/site listed on the page. Not stealing.
- hiscity, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I spent about 5 minutes on the AOL site. Won't be going back. Waste of time.
- ThatsUnpossible, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3AMAZING New World War (Video)
- chudpi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Half a screen-full of seizure inducing ads and three blocked popups later I'm back to Digg.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0All I care about is that when I visited the new Netscape site, the story quality was similar to digg, and wasnt exactly the same stories. As a user I really couldnt care whether chicken or egg or slashdot came first, the Netscape site is a worthy addition to my blogroll.
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Uh, wow, how do I explain this... Firefox can do that for you automatically with the click of a middle mouse button or control-clicking. It sounds about time that you switched from IE and Netscape.
- ericwb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0In fact, the page is so full of friggin' ads you have a hard time finding the article you clicked on in the first place!
Not even lame, it's aggravating and a waste of time and bandwidth. - bwilstyle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0What's the deal with all those Getty Images? I wonder if they paid for them. Doesn't seem like it. What do all you guys think? Are those photos freely usable due to the small size?
But anyway, I don't think I'll be visiting that site much. I think it may suffer from the trickle down effect. Like... story appears on Slashdot, then on Digg, and then on Netscape. (The old Netscape site does always seem to have some interesting articles at the top, guess that'll soon be gone.) - gcube9x, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0We all know DHMO is the most dangerous substance on earth...
http://www.dhmo.org/ - llbbl, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Digg is much better!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0"three-way love child of the current Netscape portal, Digg, and About.com"
About.com? Ugh. - TruXter, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I thought I was the last person with netscape as home page.They make great use of google's searcher, with "open in new window" feature
- itsnotvalid, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2I would just like to type less to go to that website. It sucks to type n-e-t-s-c-a-p-e than d-i-g-g.
But for harder-core news, I prefer something more international judged, and not as biased as digg or slashdot (where M$ most of the time is the loser or...) - ThirdPrize, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1but I never saw it, so it never happened. Its probably a bit more important than the latent Ubunto release or whatever but thats democracy for you.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -18/+6well look at slashdot, sometimes commander taco feels like he has to give some of his 2 cents
i personally like to know what the sites moderators think once in a while - piyali, on 10/12/2007, -18/+0replying by piyali
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