Last week Netscape announced it was killing the Digg-clone, which has occupied the site's front door for some time, and moving the social news features to a new domain. Today the company announced the new site, dubbed Propeller — presumably as in "propelling" the news.
You can expect the features to remain more or less the same as the old Netscape.com incarnation. And while the site isn't live at the new domain, Netscape promises it will be available “sooner rather than later.”
Netscape.com will in turn be moving to “a more traditional and editorially-driven news experience,” according to a post on the Netscape blog. It seems reasonable to expect the new incarnation will look something like the recently launched news portal at netscape.aol.com.
Propeller has a nice logo and even manages to eschew the oh-so-web-2.0 practice of omitting vowels, but unless it can differentiate itself from Digg in some substantial way, it's hard to see how it's going to be a viable competitor.
We'll be sure to update this post when the new site is live.
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