Archive for the “Propeller” category

Have We Reached The Pinnacle Of Social News?

by Tony Hung on February 22, 2008

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. (…)

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Propeller A Good Second Fiddle To Digg?

by Tony Hung on November 25, 2007

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 (…)

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

by Tony Hung on October 11, 2007

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 (…)

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Propeller Propels Itself Out Of The … Harbour, I Guess

by Tony Hung on September 19, 2007

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  (…)

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

by Tony Hung on September 13, 2007

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 (…)

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