As an afficionado of the interweb, you, reader, are most likely aware that Netscape has re-invented itself into what could be called either Yet Another Social Bookmarking Site, or Digg Clone Number x, depending how nice you want to be.
To simplify life for those who like contributing to these sort of sites, an enterprising blogger created diggscaperedlicious, a bookmarklet to submit to digg, netscape, reddit, and del.icio.us simultaneously. Nice.
The idea was requested by Netscape’s Jason Calcanis, and it’s a pretty good idea. For example, I decided to try it out, which prompted me to get a Netscape account. I’d be willing to wager that Netscape gets quite a few new accounts just as a result of this.
The question remains: will I (or others) actually use Netscape instead of digg, reddit, et al? That remains to be seen.
Myself, I still view del.icio.us to be a completely different animal than the other three, but it has it resemblances. So while I will likely always be a del.icio.us user, I have a strong aversion to digg. This results mostly from the puerile comments which the site seems to generate like flies on manure; at some point I decided I just would go to the site anymore. I avoided it for months; when I finally decided to visit it again, they had improved quite few aspects, but I’m still not a digg-evangelist. I grudgingly peruse digg’s front page only because it has the critical mass which ensures that there’s usually one or two interesting links to be found.
Reddit, I’ve always liked; but the community there tends to be a lot more left-wing than I am, so a lot of the highly-rated newsy links get no more than an eye-roll and a down-vote from me… But I still look over the front page at least once a day, it’s something of a habit.
Netscape? It remains to be seen if Netscape is going to be much different than the others. I’m interested enough to pop in for awhile and check it out.
