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AOL Targets Digg, YouTube With New Netscape Site

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the both-cream-and-scum-rise-to-the-top dept.

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."

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  1. I believe this by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Interesting
    The renovated site will feature community-driven news and user-submitted video, guided by editors called anchors.


    Is called /. - except for maybe the video. Why is it being compared more closely to digg?
    1. Re:I believe this by Trigun · · Score: 3, Interesting

      It is being compared more closely to digg due to the minor fact that it's pretty much a ripoff of digg, and not slashdot.
      Although, I honestly don't care about them ripping it off. If it's a good idea, and you think you can make it better, go for it.

    2. Re:I believe this by rolfwind · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Never mind, I take it back. It's not closer to either, but a hybrid of slashdot/digg, taking features of either. It has more voting, ala digg, but as far as I can tell, it has comment system more like /.

      I'm hoping the reply system is more like /., on Digg you can only reply directly to the 1st gen comments and it makes getting a decent conversation started difficult.