How to Find Your Favorite Netscape

Posted on September 12, 2007

Netscape seems to be rebranding, changing and yet still keeping older versions of itself around. This may actually not be a bad strategy providing Netscape fans can find their favorite version of Netscape. CNET found the latest news from Netscape that says the social media version of Netscape will be moving to propeller.com. As you can see the new service already has a logo but the website isn't available just yet.

Well that was quick. Just a few days after Netscape's announcement that it was shelving its social news service away from the hallowed Netscape.com domain in place of what is essentially AOL's front page, the service has already been given a new name and URL. It's called Propeller.com (link dead ends right now), and that's about all Netscape's Director Tom Drapeau was willing to divulge about the rebranded site in his announcement post on the official Netscape blog.

The Netscape blog had announced that changes would be coming last week. Duncan Riley blogging at TechCruch noted that the old Netscape that some people really missed (the straight news portal Netscape) had moved to netscape.aol.com. The Netscape.com website still contains the digg-like social news portal for the time being - eventually it will redirect to netscape.aol.com.

Summary: the old straight news portal netscape is located at netscape.aol.com and the social media Netscape will be at propeller.com once it launches. The Netscape.com domain will eventually forward people to netscape.aol.com. It isn't too complicated providing Netscape doesn't launch some other version of itself a few months from now.

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