The new Propeller: Less Digg, more Yahoo Buzz
Social news site Propeller (formerly known as Netscape) has relaunched today with not only an entirely new look and feel, but a new method for determining the buzz-worthiness of news. Gone is the straight-up voting style that main rival Digg made popular, in its place is a rating-scale more akin to Yahoo Buzz.
The new system rates stories on a scale of 1 to 10 (basically their “buzz”). It appears that taken into account is the… Continue Reading
The Recommendation Engine may well make Digg useful again
It’s been a long time coming, but Digg is finally rolling out its “Recommendation Engine” to registered users this week. The basic idea is that the service will look at what stories you have dugg (the term for when you give an ‘up’ vote to an item) and based upon that, find similar users to you, using them to send you new stories.
Flat out: This is the feature that can make Digg useful to me… Continue Reading