Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 by Jordan McCollum

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Netscape Announces New Social Site Propeller.com

As promised last week, Netscape has announced the pending location of its new social news site, Propeller.com.

propeller.com logo

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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16 comments on “Netscape Announces New Social Site Propeller.com”

  1. Burgo Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 1:17 am

    “Lee Odden, on Search Engine Journal…”

    Heh. Jordan, I think that should read “Loren Baker” :P

  2. kvernon Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 1:18 am

    Ahhh…but will the users spell it correctly? Sure wish I owned propeler.com

  3. Andrew Says:

    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…

  4. Bushido Says:

    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.

  5. » Social Bookmarking Sites I Like Search Engine Optimization Journal Says:

    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 [...]

  6. Jordan McCollum Says:

    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.

  7. William Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 10:29 am

    Why don’t they name it “cooler”?

  8. Mark Barrera Says:

    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 ;)

  9. Terry Howard Says:

    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.

  10. Bidding Directory Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

    Hmm strange.. Site doesn’t load form me:/

  11. Jordan McCollum Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 3:35 pm

    Not really, since, as I noted in the article, it hasn’t launched yet.

  12. Bidding Directory Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Oh, alright. Thanks Jordan McCollum!

  13. Steven Bradley Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 4:19 pm

    A web 2.0 site that spells its name correctly? What’s the world coming to?

  14. Burgo Says:

    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/

  15. Jordan McCollum Says:

    September 12th, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    Darn. No idea why then.

  16. Andy Beal Says:

    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. ;-)