Posts Tagged with ‘propeller’

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]

In case you are overtaxed with ad revenue stories and Google posturing, I thought it was about time for another installment of the people of Web 2.0. It has been a while since we looked at the individuals who make up our interesting virtual world, so I selected someone how is a quiet and interesting fixture among us. Steve De Chellis, or HMTKSteve across the Web, is a blogger, programmer and social networking guru that you may have noticed a [...]

If you have been a user of Netscape (the social news site), then you have heard about the planned changes being made by AOL to revert Netscape.com back to being a basic web portal.
Well, those changes have gone into effect today, as the successor to the social news site made its debut with a new URL and name, Propeller.com.
If you are looking for new features or innovations, look elsewhere, because there is nothing new here, other than the logo and [...]

Just over a month ago, we told you of AOL’s planned retirement of the social news structure of Netscape. Just a week ago, the website was officially removed for good. Yesterday, AOL announced its plans to enter the social news game once more.
I guess the company’s not giving up on its dream of profiting off a Digg clone quite yet.
I don’t know whether to call it a reinvention of the Calacanis model or simply a reinstitution of what was [...]