"The new Netscape Internet site showcases Netscape's key technologies and makes it easy for users to find the information, software and resources they want," said Mike Homer, senior vice president of marketing at Netscape. "Netscape's ongoing commitment to giving users the most exciting content and the best possible starting point for navigating the Internet helps to keep the Netscape site the most popular destination on the Internet today."
The Netscape Internet site, which receives more than 85 million hits a day, now offers regular columns, including TechVision, by Marc Andreessen, Netscape's co-founder and senior vice president of technology, focusing on Marc's technology insights; The Main Thing, by Netscape president and CEO Jim Barksdale, which will discuss aspects of Netscape's business and its evolution; Website Stories, which will describe the people, technology and design behind some of the most innovative sites on the Net; and Intranet Executive, featuring IS executives from Netscape's Intranet customer base describing their use of Netscape technology and its impact on their business. Each one of these columns will include an online discussion group so that readers can debate key issues.
In addition to the columns, the site now also features Netscape PowerStart, a second-generation customizable start page for Internet users. PowerStart enables users to easily build a custom start page for faster, simpler access to their choice of electronic mail addresses, newsgroups, stock prices and key Internet sites, all based on personal preferences. Link options include The Wall Street Journal Interactive, Reuters, the American Stock Exchange, Major League Baseball, PCWorld, major Internet search companies and more.
PowerStart uses Netscape Navigator's built-in JavaScript, an object-based, platform-independent scripting language, to take users through a simple setup process and then record their choices on the computer's hard drive. Each time the user logs on to his or her page, the JavaScript software is delivered to the computer over the Internet and the page is constructed. Since the JavaScript code runs locally on the user's machine in Netscape Navigator rather than on a remote server, users experience good performance and their selections remain private.
PowerStart is built on and showcases the capabilities of Netscape ONE, the open network environment, a standards-based platform for creating a new generation of network applications. Netscape ONE unifies into a single platform the standards of the Internet, such as HTTP, HTML, LDAP, Java and JavaScript. PowerStart includes:
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