Comments on: Propeller Will Be The New Netscape Digg Clone

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Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:27:02 +0000

[…] portal as a Digg-like site. AOL eventually moved the service to a different domain name and renamed it Propeller. The service has about 3.8 million monthly unique visitors (Comscore), compared to about 12.5 […]

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Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:57:05 +0000

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AOL Finds An Obvious Use For WOW.com: A World Of Warcraft Social Network — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:28:53 +0000

[…] The wow.com domain name has laid dormant since at least 1998, when it was acquired by AOL along with other assets of Compuserve. The domain has been coveted by a number of AOL business units over the years, though. At one point there was a discussion of it being used to house the netscape social news assets (they eventually settled on propeller.com). […]

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By: Peter Everhard

Peter Everhard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:34:54 +0000

Sorry, but anybody calling the Social News Netscape.com a digg-clone is totally clueless.

The Social News Experiment at Netscape.com hopefully will end up with someone who can see what exactly it is. So far, 99.9% of the people writing about (and slamming) the Social News Netscape can’t even see what the thing is.

By: RgnKjnVA

RgnKjnVA — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:22:58 +0000

Mispell, you misspelled misspell.

By: Alex Rudloff

Alex Rudloff — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:50:16 +0000

You guys sure do love to assume that the team over there isn’t up to anything else

I’m no longer a part of Netscape, but I do know that the team over there is top notch. They may not make it out of the woods, but I highly doubt that they’re just sitting around on their hands.

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:38:16 +0000

Cool name though.

By: moham polik

moham polik — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:25:33 +0000

So Michael - now you can say Calcanis is failure on this one? This his idea and he did it so he get failure?

By: Taylor2nd

Taylor2nd — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:55:00 +0000

Richard Miller? Why should digg be put down to the grown. Its a great web application. Genius to be honest. The fact that so many clones are coming up attest to that fact, “Digg is great”.

I also agree with rob. I don’t see anyone else out there with the level of focus and genius to defeat digg other than google.

And another thing that powers digg isn’t even just the website. Diggnation the web tv show has a huuuuge userbase. Crushing digg wont be that easy.

By: Blaine

Blaine — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:48:12 +0000

What is the big deal of having choices? LinkedIn vs. Kickstart, Facebook vs. Myspace vs Virb, Delicious vs Magnolia, Slashdot vs Digg vs Netscape. All these sites have their own dedicated users so I don’t see what is the big deal with any one of their existences. None of the TC Netscape related posts seem to inform the community, but rather just exploit happenings else where to create buzz for itself. What are you guys CNN?

Choice and competition drive innovation. Look at the browser wars with Mozilla Foundation coming out of it. Look at the Mac vs. PC wars and how far both brands have come. Google vs. Yahoo - both are doing amazing things.

So common, you beat the “digg clone” thing to death and now it is going away, so find something else to rag on or maybe report some actual news.

By: Richard Miller

Richard Miller — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:50:29 +0000

I hope this propeller thing goes big. Somebody or something has to put Digg down to the ground.

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:57:09 +0000

After talking with some of the scouts I was told that the nigher ups at AOL were stopping the scouts from removing trash/spam from the front page if it “looked” to have gotten their organicly. That is my biggest problem with Netscape, all the spam on the front page!

Right now a front page Netscape story will drive between 2K and 8K page views. I wonder how far that will drop when it changes to the new domain?

By: rob

rob — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:47:26 +0000

“digg killer” phrase thrown around alot these days. The only thing that can “kill” digg is Google. The digg programmer a so talented and focused that Google is the only organization (i know of ) that has the resources, talent and focus to take them out (or buy them and maintain the digg level of quality). A Google-Digg would be VERY cool (Diggle? Giggle?).

Although, any talk of Kevin Rose changing hands usually results in Digg fans gnashing of teeth and eating their own guts with anger. Maybe digg would be better off without the fringe crazies (Kevin Rose groupies) that loiter the comments there.

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:44:58 +0000

I don’t think you will see any big changes with the site look right away, they are going to move the site over and then focus on some new features in the future.

By: Aditya

Aditya — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:42:17 +0000

Too late to do this.

Didnt they think of this earlier lol

By: Allen Stern

Allen Stern — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:49:12 +0000

If they don’t innovate, then it could be a quick death. But if they do, it could be a winner. And since we haven’t seen it yet, how do we know which it is?

Why wouldn’t this new app get the same objective review that any other startup gets?

Of course, had they thought about it, it probably would have made sense to demo this at your conference next week and show some screens.

By: Fake "Fake Michael Arrington"

Fake "Fake Michael Arrington" — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:46:16 +0000

OK, all bets down! We can check on 9-11 2008 and see if propeller is still spinning….

Michael and Duncan say “no way”.
I’m going with “yes” (although it’s possible that it gets “spun off”, so to speak - nothing like some propeller-related puns…). There WILL be a social news site at propeller.com on 9/11/2008.

Social news sites are NOT hard or expensive to run. They just require users - preferably a growing user base - to run well. Chances are it’ll be cashflow-positive (or close) in the next 12 months, and so they won’t kill it. I don’t see it being a cash cow for anyone either.

Look how long it took f’kcompany.com to die. And those were “moderated” news stories. I wouldn’t be surprised if f’dcompany.com got reintroduced with pligg…

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:44:35 +0000

In the early days, I posted a few articles on Netscape, one of which “didn’t meet with their editorial guidelines”, which is funny, because Digg didn’t mind.

Then for whatever reason, my account vanished. I never got a reply when I requested my account details.

Taking that kind of stance right out of the trap does not a good, respected Social Media website maketh…

By: Fake Michael Arrington

Fake Michael Arrington — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 07:02:46 +0000

This post shows 21 comments and I see only 20 in here . Is something wrong?

By: RBA

RBA — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:08:07 +0000

I say let’s wait to see what they’ve done and whether they’ve innovated as Allen suggest they should, or they’ve simply relegated the site to the minor league by just changing the brand and domain name, as Mike’s guessing.

If Mike’s right (and he very well might be), it’d be a petty because as Allen says, they do have an opportunity to build something interesting. We’ll see…

By: gilltots

gilltots — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:43:51 +0000

it would be pretty funny if this is what AOL is going to launch at TechCrunch 43…

By: Netscape Social News to Propeller « Nishu’s Apocalypse

Netscape Social News to Propeller « Nishu’s Apocalypse — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:33:23 +0000

[…] Digg and news is moderated by editors. I just hope propeller shouldn’t be just another “refined clone” of […]

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:20:04 +0000

Allen - I like a lot of what AOL is doing, but this is a near complete surrender, not a fresh new take on the site. Game is over, its been relegated to the minor leagues and I agree with Duncan - it will likely be quietly closed in a year.