What Netscape Does Right and 10 Ways to Make it Better Than Digg
With all the uproar over Jason Calacanis offering to pay top
posters to places like Digg, Reddit and Newsvine, I'm thinking a
ton about how these services work or don't. Articles I've
written have hit the front page of Digg, Lifehacker, Boing
Boing, Make, Lockergnome and a handful of the other sites
everyone dies to get a link from. Still, my single biggest
traffic day ever came from hitting the front page of the "new-
and-improved" Netscape. Netscape almost doubled my daily unique
visitor count while the others only increased traffic by 30-40%
at most.  The single most useful feature of sites like Digg,
del.icio.us, reddit, Newsvine, RawSugar and the numerous other
choices are the people. Takeaway the people and you've got a
vacant lot. If you find a person or people who always find stuff
you like, you've got a personal tastemaker who is helping shape
your reading experience. I subscribe to specific user's feeds on
del.icio.us because I know I'