Propeller is formerly Netscape.com a social news community site run and operated by AOL-Netscape. This is similar operation to Digg that the users can vote, post a comment and post a story.Brian Alvey the Chief Architect and Alex Rudolf the lead site developer. Jason Calacanis was formerly CEO Netscape until he left AOL in November 2007.

On June 2006 to September 2007 Propeller was hosted on the Netscape domain. The older version of Propeller was released with mix reactions. Some users liked that they had more participation ability while others found the pages to be harder to navigate and not as structured. Soon after the release of the new site, a story entitled “Netscape’s Blunder” was the top rated story.

Propeller has several “anchors”, currently led by James Marcus, who work on maintaining the site and featuring stories in the “anchor picks” box on the home page. This creates a slightly different environment from Digg, as Digg’s homepage rankings are based solely on user votes, where Propeller’s are based on both.

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