Category Archives: Propeller

Have We Reached The Pinnacle Of Social News?

So I loves my news aggregators, and I loves my social news sites. You may have also heard of a new breed of such sites, which aggregate shared bookmarks via Google Reader (and more), such as readburner, linkriver, and rssmeme.
Anywhoo, I was about to wax poetic about how useful these new services are, when, [...]

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Propeller A Good Second Fiddle To Digg?

Allen Stern at CenterNetworks queries how good Propeller (previously “Netscape.com”) is and will be, and crunches some publicly available traffic data to suggest, perhaps, in time it will be a legitimate #2 to Digg as the social news king.
I have to admit that I don’t follow Digg and its clones other social news brethren all [...]

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Netscape’s Traffic Takes A Dive After It Splits Off Social News Into Propeller?

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 [...]

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Propeller Propels Itself Out Of The … Harbour, I Guess

The “Social” Netscape has finally and officially moved to its new url, Propeller.com as of today. The official blog states that we should expect some growing pains, particularly as it sorts out its problem with spam.  For example, I suspect  *any* post regarding tramadol is *probably* spam.  It also says that there are new [...]

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* Propeller An Apt Name — Its Time To Sink Or Swim, Lads

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 [...]

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