Top Items:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL-Netscape Launches Massive Digg-Like Site — AOL-Netscape Launches Massive "Digg Killer" — On Thursday, AOL's Netscape property will no longer be just another portal - it's being converted into a Digg-killer. I was briefed on the new site by Jason Calacanis last week.
RELATED ITEMS:
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
AOL to Turn Netscape Site Into a Newspaper of Sorts — In attempt to revive an aging but still well-known Internet brand, AOL is turning its Netscape.com site into a collection of links to news articles, submitted by users and expanded upon by a staff of bloggers.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
New Netscape.com focuses on news — Netscape is expected to relaunch its Web site on Thursday, transforming from a general purpose portal into a news site in which both readers and editors choose the content. — In its latest incarnation, Netscape is a hybrid news site combining elements …
Read/WriteWeb:
Netscape wears Digg's clothing - but underneath it's still a portal — Techcrunch has the scoop on the new Netscape portal beta, which bears a striking resemblance to Digg. Mike thinks it's a "digg killer" and in terms of pure numbers it may well be. Netscape gets a surprising 811 million …
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
Digg this: Calacanis relaunches iconic Netscape.com as a "social news" site — Remember when Netscape was synonymous with Web surfing? Other Internet names have moved to the fore now, and the iconic Web site has languished as an un-hip Web portal. But now it wants to make a comeback.
Discussion:
robhyndman.com
Rafat / paidContent.org:
Netscape.com Relaunched As a User-Driven News Aggregation Site; Calacanis is GM, Netscape [by Rafat] — Netscape.com, the website behind the storied browser company, is being revived (as we first reported here in March) and has launched in public beta tonight.
Red Herring:
Netscape Makes the Social News — AOL's lagging brand retools with social news, following Digg. — Netscape, the brand that kick-started the dot-com boom only to lose the browser war to Microsoft, launched its latest reincarnation on Thursday with a portal focused on community-driven news.
Discussion:
InterMedia
Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:Netscape (updated) — OK, fine... it's true!
Discussion:
Performancing.com
Jason D. O'Grady / The Apple Core:
iPod sweatshops alleged — The UK's Mail on Sunday reported that Apple's iPods are made in China by mainly female workers who earn as little as 27 pounds per month. The report set off a tidal wave of objection and claims that iPods are made in sweatshops. According to Macworld UK:
RELATED ITEMS:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
MSN's Hand Crafted Results — "MSN Hiring People to Hand Code SERPS" at SEO Blackhat is a nice catch from the MSN Search jobs page talking about needing people to help hand-craft results. Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped reacts with "Oh my." I react with "Hallelujah." — Let's look at the job post first:
Philipsu / The World As Best As I Remember It:
Broken Windows Theory — [This was originally posted a week ago, and yanked of my own volition. What followed was a firestorm of speculation about how The Man beat me down, etc, which is completely untrue. Now I repost this back, only to quell the speculation. Blog on.] — Vista.
Discussion:
Gadgetopia
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Money lost to cybercrime down—again — SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—While many headlines spell doom and gloom when it comes to computer-related misdeeds, the average losses at businesses due to cybercrime continue to drop, according to a new survey. — For the fourth straight year …
Kim Hart / Washington Post:
Google to Launch Government Search Site — It's finally happening: The ever-expanding Google Inc. is making its move on the federal government. — Today the company plans to announce a new online product aimed at being a one-stop shop for searching federal government Web sites.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Eight Dollar Home Network Rack Solution — Universal Adds 'Traffic' to Busy Summer HD DVD Lineup [High-def DVD Digest] — Universal introduces HD DVD price drop [uber gizmo] — Eight Dollar Home Network Rack Solution — READ MORE: DIY, GADGETS, LETTER TRAYS, NETWORK, RACK
Martin Davies / Guardian:
Gamers don't want any more grief — Players who abuse others in online games may soon be ostracised as virtual communities start to police their own environments — The gaming community calls them "griefers": people who like nothing better than to kill team-mates or obstruct the game's objectives.
PR Newswire:
8x8 Awarded Patent for Hosted IP-PBX Technology — SANTA CLARA, Calif., June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT - News), provider of Packet8 broadband voice over internet protocol (VoIP) and videophone communications services, today announced it has been awarded US Patent …
bobwyman.pubsub.com:
The Rumors of our death are only slightly exaggerated. — Rumors have been flying lately about the demise of PubSub.com. While I've seen quite a bit of exaggeration in various forums, I can't deny that things are not going well for us. Our days are numbered.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Social networks—future portal or fad? — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.—Social networks like MySpace and Facebook are the zeitgeist for online executives and investors, just as they are for millions of young people. — But attendees at the Piper Jaffray Global Internet Summit here still can't decide …
