Netscape's new future will be as a Digg-like memedigger. You can see the nice looking beta site
here. TechCrunch
says blogs or sites featured on the new Netscape could be crushed by a traffic tsunami.
Putting this kind of audience in front of a Digg like service could spell trouble for many sites that ultimately make it to the top of the site. A Digg or Slashdot story can send tens of thousands of visitors to a site in a matter of minutes or hours. With Netscape, this effect could be many times larger - possibly resulting in outages at sites headlining the new service.
The Netscape memedigger covers a broad array of categories unlike Digg, which so far only focuses on tech news. However, we know Digg is about to
change that. Netscape even has a
Do No Evil channel. The Netscape news is a hot topic in the tech blogosphere today. Some bloggers are
calling the Netscape beta a Digg clone. Tom Raftery
says Digg must be very flattered. Over
200 blogs are linking to the new Netscape beta according to Technorati. Google Blogsearch shows
106 and Bloglines shows
867 links to the Netscape beta.
