Netscape gone!!!

Discussion in 'General Business' started by Angelus, Sep 20, 2007.

  1. #1
    I wanted to login to Netscape this morning and I see that it gone, I mean not really gone but it is redirected to netscape.aol.com and it is now a news portal. The old netscape is located at propeller.com. Why would Netscape do such a dramatic change?

    You can read more about it in my Netscape article

    p.l.u.r.
     
    Angelus, Sep 20, 2007 IP
  2. n-james

    n-james Well-Known Member

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    #2
    http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/11/social-news-update/ < has all the info.

    Put the story in quotes below in case aol pull it :eek:

     
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  3. Mialicious

    Mialicious Well-Known Member

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    I wondered about that myself. Thx for the info:D
     
    Mialicious, Sep 21, 2007 IP
  4. touches93

    touches93 Well-Known Member

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    How about the Netscape Browser? Is it still downloadable?
     
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  5. bobchrist

    bobchrist Active Member

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    Looking through Propeller.com it looks ditto like netscape, they might be expending after creating that portal.
     
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  6. Flif

    Flif Active Member

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    #6
    same 'ol situation, just a different logo I think!
     
    Flif, Sep 21, 2007 IP
  7. GeorgeB.

    GeorgeB. Notable Member

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    It's a smart move.

    They needed to remove the digg style service before it started to define them.

    I gotta say that's the ugliest logo I've ever seen on a site owned by a multi-million dollar corporation.

    [​IMG]
     
    GeorgeB., Sep 21, 2007 IP
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    gr8liverpoolfan Notable Member

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    George, the logo looks a lot more worse in the image that you have put up than it is at the actual site :D

    I can't say the logo is the best that they could have come up with, but it isn't too bad.
     
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  9. Angelus

    Angelus Well-Known Member

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    It's not the same, Netscape had PR9, propeller has no PR ;)

    p.l.u.r.
     
    Angelus, Sep 22, 2007 IP
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    sickanimations Peon

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    #10
    It's not as if your links would be on there long enough to get much Google Link Juice, though :p
     
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    thank god netscape is not dead! otherwise my stories got deleted:)
     
    khulja, Sep 22, 2007 IP
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    #12
    Looks like Netscape is planning for something big to put on Netscape.com Makes sense, a big company like that putting a news network on main website isn't much of a good idea.
     
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    I wonder why don't they redirect it to propeller.com instead of useless AOL site?
     
    nickstan, Sep 22, 2007 IP
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    I noticed list not yesturday, but the day before I think. I wanted to use it and couldn't access it. I tried again yesturday and couldn't access it. The bad thing about it is, it was redirecting to netscape.aol.com and it never seemed to be loading properly. It was just hanging, unless it was my computer or internet connection. Even going direct to aol.com was hanging on me.
     
    john269, Sep 22, 2007 IP
  15. tips2berich

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    AOL wanted to restore the netscape page again. There was an increasing demand that the old netscape page be restored. And hence the story was going around that AOL would either close the social bookmarking site or put it on some other domain. There were rumors about a couple of other domains which AOL had bought recently. However, they redirected it to propeller. I saw this story on techcrunch atleast a month ago, but AOL people would keep their lips tightly shut on this. Finally this happened..
     
    tips2berich, Sep 23, 2007 IP