AOL refreshes Netscape as social news site with a twist

AOL yesterday relaunched the aging Netscape.com as a social news site (yea, like digg) but with a profe ional journalistic twist. Check it out. Anyone can sign up, submit and vote on interesting stories from acro the web in a wide range of categories from politics, money, television, technology, health and even 'do no evil'. Going above and beyond the social news bookmarking concept, however, is a staff of journalists, including TUAW's own C.K. Sample III and Fabie e Serriere, who will follow up on some of the stories and dig deeper by na ing interviews, posting related links and keeping users informed as the situation develo (on a side note, we finally figured out why C.K. and Fa gave us that 'we'd tell you what we're working on, but then we'd have to kill you' bit a while ago).

Why are we telling you about all this since it i 't ecifically A le-related, you ask? Well, we should probably tell you the project was headed up by Weblogs Inc.'s CEO, Jason Calacanis. Granted, Weblogs Inc., including TUAW, are owned by AOL, but we could still call it crummy if we wanted to - fortunately, that i 't the case. We think it's a great concept that you should go have some fun with. Still, if you're looking for some A le- ecific details before you fire off a flaming comment, how does 'full-Safari compatibility' work for you? In fact, I think the site actually looks surprisingly better in Safari than Firefox.