Optimistic Rebel

Doubtful. Replacing voting with mysterious algorithms probably won’t do it for the digg generation

Propeller, AOL’s Digg-like news site, launches version 2.0 later this morning. The site sports a new design and logo and now has a mascot - described as “part professor, part citizen journalist” (see image below).

But the biggest feature change is the removal of a pure Digg-like vote count. In its place is an algorithm based popularity ranking of 1-10, which takes into account “many more aspects of participation” when determining popularity…

Do you use Digg? If not, what? What about AOL? Will you consider Propeller?

Propeller 2.0 Launches: Ditching The Vote Count, Adding A Mascot