Category Archives: Social News

What Drives More Traffic Than Getting Digged, Reddited, Delicious’d, or StumbledUpon?

From the “oh yeah — its that important” department”, Om “GigaOm” Malik reports how beneficial being “buzzed” has been for GigaOm.com.  And of course he’s referring to Yahoo Buzz, which is a social news type of site that was launched some months ago.  Its funny how some news gets lost in the wake of other [...]

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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 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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