About a month ago, I wrote about how Netscape dumped its social news component into its own site, Propeller.com and wondered rhetorically how it would turn out — with the subtext being, perhaps, how *Netscape* would really fare now that its social news component was on its own.
Well, a month has come and gone, and [...]
Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites. I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get any advance shares sadly), but I can already tell you that the advance press (from [...]
Yes, its a few days late, but a few last thoughts about Netscape is moving its ’social’ component to Propeller.com, namely that I “dig” the new name (sorry, I couldn’t help myself), I think its a good idea that its getting its own domain name, and now, its time for it to actually sink or [...]
Update: Apparently official communications were such that Scouts were in fact told of the upcoming changes.
Some sad (or happy, depending on your point of view) news coming out of AOL this morning: they plan to scuttle Jason Calacanis’s social legacy by moving the “social” version of netscape (read: “you can vote on stories … like [...]
Well, it looks like there are a fair number of German rip offs of Silicon Valley web applications. Nick Gonzalez points out to a Geni-clone, called Verwandt, which, when compared screens to screens, looks so identical, it almost looks shameless. I guess after this post, its unfair to be knocking Chinese … er, knock-offs, as [...]
Seems like Destructoid staffers have been digg pimping each others stories ad nauseum leading, perhaps, to an inequitable number of their stories hitting the front page (if not the gaming front page) of Digg. Not really surprising for a number of reasons, mostly because K.Ro and Jay.A have, on multiple occasions, given it their [...]
In a long eloquent argument that carries not the slightest whiff of sour grapes, the guy behind one of the bigger digg clones social news sites argues for why social voting is merely a feature — and if this is so, why its silly to call any one site which has this feature prominently a [...]
