Netscape Announces New Social Site Propeller.com
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007;
-- Jordan McCollum |
As promised last week, Netscape has announced the pending location of its new social news site, Propeller.com.
The site isn’t currently ready, but Netscape says they’re hard at work behind the scenes on the switch.
Loren Baker, on Search Engine Journal, is hoping for new “Propel it” buttons to replace the old Netscape buttons. (I dunno, sometimes I’m easily distracted 
.)
The name has good connotations for a social news site—and is actually spelled correctly. I wonder how much that cost them.
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September 12th, 2007 at 1:17 am
“Lee Odden, on Search Engine Journal…”
Heh. Jordan, I think that should read “Loren Baker”
September 12th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Ahhh…but will the users spell it correctly? Sure wish I owned propeler.com
September 12th, 2007 at 6:17 am
Is this just going to be another digg site? I think there are already too many of these. Just my 2 cents…
September 12th, 2007 at 6:56 am
Let’s see if netscape’s old oars will be successfully propelled by the launch of this site.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:53 am
[...] which is about to change to a new domain name for its bookmarking site. It will soon be called Propeller. I like that. Other places I like are StumbleUpon, Digg, del.icio.us, and various other sites as [...]
September 12th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Thanks, Burgo. I got confused because Lee left a comment on Netscape’s blog asking for spinning Propel it buttons.
September 12th, 2007 at 10:29 am
Why don’t they name it “cooler”?
September 12th, 2007 at 11:36 am
“The name… is actually spelled correctly.”
Now if we could just convince the others to do the same I might regain my sanity
September 12th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
Hmmm… Hate to point this out but Full Sail Real World Education has had an online community/social network for students and alumni called Propeller for years now. Not exactly a public website, more like Facebook was when it was open only to college students, but an unoriginal name for its purpose none the less.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Hmm strange.. Site doesn’t load form me:/
September 12th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Not really, since, as I noted in the article, it hasn’t launched yet.
September 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
Oh, alright. Thanks Jordan McCollum!
September 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pm
A web 2.0 site that spells its name correctly? What’s the world coming to?
September 12th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
Pretty sure it was Loren on the Netscape blog as well… I know, it’s irritating, but I’m a stickler for details
His is the third comment on http://blog.netscape.com/2007/09/11/social-news-update/
September 12th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Darn. No idea why then.
September 12th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
Don’t feel bad, when I first emailed with Loren, I thought he was a “she”. Fortunately, he let it go.