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Netscape – One year on

By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • Jul 5th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)

We’d posted some updates about Netscape in March and June. We’ve found another from Read/Write web:

“One year ago, the new-look netscape.com launched. What was once the leading portal in the 90’s was re-born in June 2006 a a digg clone. Soon after the re-launch, there was an enormous uproar from the existing Netscape.com community – which, it turned out, were fairly ‘old school’ about what kind of portal they liked. The posts that we ran at the time got a huge number of comments – and overwhelmingly negative towards the re-design. Some even compared New Netscape to New Coke.

So how has Netscape.com fared over the past year? Netscape is said to have had 811 million monthly page views at the time of the re-launch…” Read more here

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