The new Propeller: Less Digg, more Yahoo Buzz

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