Netscape: how NOT to innovate

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Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten - Internet Entrepreneur, blogger and public speaker.

Sat, Nov 4, 2006

Users don’t like the new Netscape homepage. That is not a surprise. The new Netscape homepage is such a clear copy/clone of Digg that it is almost funny. If Netscape would have been a new and small company that wouldn’t have mattered. But now they are on the wrong side of the David/Goliath equation.
Picasso said:

creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

I think Netscape could learn something from that…

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