Comments on: The Biggest Loss from Netscape Social News Becoming Propeller.com

By: Is Propeller Headed for a Landing?

Is Propeller Headed for a Landing? — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:07:30 +0000

[...] 2007, Propeller took flight and the social news site took the place of the Netscape site. Many wondered if the new location might hurt the overall ability to brand the social news service. While lots of [...]

By: jeff ferrani

jeff ferrani — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:01:20 +0000

Some more tips would be great. Any more information and experiences are appreciated.

By: Social Media News Quick Hits » 10e20 - Search, Design & Social

Social Media News Quick Hits » 10e20 - Search, Design & Social — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:39:33 +0000

[...] Netscape Social News is officially dead. Long live Propeller. We talked about this last week and its now official. Netscape has redirected their homepage to netscape.aol.com and the social [...]

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:12:48 +0000

It will be really interesting to see how this plays out Brian…

By: iBrian

iBrian — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:19:46 +0000

Sorry, but I’d have to be pessimistic here as well. Removing the social media tells me AOL see little value in it, and are basically shutting down the lights throughout their building. What’s probably most sad is the apparent lack of vision with AOL. Redirect Netscape.com to netscape.aol.com, so we can read regurgitated news? Sure, there’s value, planning and foresight in the user experience there, I’m sure. I guess AOL is too much of a wounded dinosaur to do anything but clutch it’s assets tightly, and hope it doesn;t go too far down the tubes too quickly.

2c.:

By: Janu

Janu — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:07:11 +0000

very nice post, i hadn’t even thought of that

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:28:58 +0000

Hi Andy – from what I gather from one of the Netscape Scouts – everything will transfer, so I am assuming that means the pages as well – except for the homepage obviously which will be redirecting to aol.netscape.com..

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 08:07:15 +0000

It is a premium domain registered in 1998

If they are smart they will redirect previous content pages and above all the submission forms – the submission forms pass a huge amount of link equity to these sites.

There might be a drop, but it will also gain a life of its own and its own community which might become more varied.

By: Glen Allsopp

Glen Allsopp — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:48:27 +0000

@Glen -sounds like you are an anti-AOL guyâ€¦

Not really, it’s basically that I:

Don’t like the design
Think it’s too political
Don’t like the fact there are ‘editors picks’

Blah blah etc etc

By: Chris Winfield

Chris Winfield — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:12:41 +0000

Chris – great point. At the very least put the same exact post up on propeller.com as they had on the Netscape blog and let their users now that everything would be ported over/etc…