Netscape To Scale Back Social Voting Design

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 7, 2007

“Visitors to Netscape.com will see a more traditional news experience very soon. Don’t worry, the social news site isn’t going away! We will keep you updated on where you will be able to find the social news site as we get closer to making the switch,” wrote Tom Drapeau on the Netscape Blog.

Jason Calacanis is often associated with Netscape turning into a Digg-like service. And Calacanis also reportedly oversaw the hiring of top users from social bookmarking sites Digg, Reddit, Newsvine, Flickr, etc.

The new Netscape homepage will look like netscape.aol.com, but Netscape’s social bookmarking platform hasn’t found a new URL home yet. Calacanis no longer works as a General Manager at Netscape. Now he is working on a new search engine startup called Mahalo.com.