What is Propeller.com? Propeller is a social news portal, meaning that it is programmed by you — the audience. Our members post links to stories from all over the Web. Many of these stories originate from the websites of traditional media, including newspapers and magazines. But you will also find many stories that seldom pop up in the mainstream. Posting a story at Propeller is only the beginning. Once the link has been posted, you can comment on it, share it with friends, or bookmark it to read later. In this context, news is not simply a pile of facts to be absorbed. It is a conversation. And above all, it is fun. Is this all free? Yes. Propeller is free to anyone with a computer and an Internet connection. Do I have to become a member to use the site? What’s the benefit of registering? You don’t have to become a member to read the stories on Propeller. However, if you wish to participate – by posting stories, commenting, adding friends, or joining one of our many groups – you need to register. The registration process takes less than a minute, and we’ll never share your email address or bombard you with pesky newsletters. We respect your privacy. Is there any oversight on Propeller, or is this a complete free-for-all? Propeller is a moderated site. We have a team of full-time editors who do a number of things to keep the Propeller experience clean and compelling. First, they remove spam, objectionable content, and commercial solicitations. They are available to assist community members when a dispute flares up. And they write certain regular features, such the Week In Review and Overlooked, that invite the participation of the community. In addition to the editorial team, we also have a large crew of part-time Scouts, who function as “power users” but also help us to remove spam, redirect stories that break the Middleman Rule (see below), and moderate discussions. Needless to say, we also have a crack team of developers, who are constantly working to improve the user experience. The entire Propeller staff is here to serve our community. Please feel free to contact any of us via site mail with ideas, questions, or concerns you may have. How does the Propeller home page work? The home page is programmed by the Propeller community. Our development staff has created algorithms that measure all sorts of participation, including the number of votes (or "props"), page views, and comments. Stir in a few more variables, and you get a Propeller Popularity Index for the story. The top-scoring stories make it to the front page – and of course those stories will keep changing, 24 hours a day. How do tags work? Tags are descriptive words you should add to your submitted stories. They will make it easier for other community members to find the content they’re looking for. Here’s an example. If you post a story about the iPod, you might add the following tags: apple, ipod, mp3, steve jobs. Depending on your point of view, you might also add industrial design or yuppie or hearing loss. What is the Middleman Rule? Our policy is to link whenever possible to the original source of a story. We avoid links to (for example) blog posts that briefly discuss a breaking news story without adding any substantial analysis or discussion. We’d rather point our visitors back to the original source. When we encounter a story that breaks the Middleman Rule, we will redirect visitors to the original source and leave an Editor Commentary box noting the change. Propeller is not accepting submissions from a specific URL. Why not? In order to prevent duplicate story submissions, we permanently ban sites like TinyURL.com or other URL aliasing services. We also permanently ban URLs from sites that violate our Terms of Use – that would include links to objectionable content, spam, phishing farms, and any site that promotes criminal behavior. If sites are reported by users or picked up by our anti-spamming algorithms, we place a temporary ban on them while we investigate. We may lift the ban in the event of a misunderstanding. We also reserve the right to extend such bans permanently. What do you mean by spam and sock puppets? You’re more likely than not familiar with spam from email. It’s unwanted content that is often trying to sell you something. Besides eliminating actual spam stories in the system, our staff also watches out for sock puppets – multiple accounts registered to the same member, often used to focus attention on spam submissions. If detected, sock puppet accounts will be eliminated at once, and those users will be permanently banned from Propeller. For what other reasons will you close a story? Propeller is a news site. So when you submit stories, try to make sure they are newsworthy, rather than leftovers from the virtual dumpster. We reserve the right to close stories that are: * old news. * non-HTML files with minimal news value, including direct links to executable programs, screensavers, PDFs, Word Documents, Excel Documents, and so forth. * deceptive in any way to our readers, including spam-heavy websites or blogs that are essentially disguised advertisements. * press releases, which are also disguised advertisements. * detailed instructions for hacking or exploiting our site.

Furl is a free service that saves the important items you find on the Web and enables you to quickly find them again. Furl archives a personal copy of every page you save. When you want to recall it, you can find it instantly by searching the full text your archived items. Each member has a personal archive of 5 gigabytes (GB), large enough to store tens of thousands of searchable items.

Furl recommends new Web pages that may interest you, guided by the sites you've already "Furled," or saved.

Furl also offers the best ways to share the content you find on the Web. Send a daily email newsletter of links to friends and colleagues, use Furl to generate RSS feeds for your links, or integrate them quickly and easily into an existing Web site.

Once you see an interesting web site, how do you ever find it again? Do you save it to your local hard drive? Do you bookmark it or add it to your favorites list? Finding an old site can be very difficult. It might not stand out in the thousands of results from the largest search engines. It might not stand out in a long list of bookmarks or favorites. And if you are using a different machine or a different browser, it may be completely inaccessible to you. The more you use the web, the more this is a problem for you. Everyone suffers with this.

Furl.net is a web site that solves this compelling personal information management problem for you. By bookmarking any site you find of interest on Furl, you can easily annotate, find it later, refer to it, and share it with others. All on a system with practically unlimited storage, accessible to you from anywhere on the web, at no cost to you.

Furl provides so many features it can be hard to take it all in. There are many other "social bookmarking" web sites out there, also - how can you compare them to find the right one for you? What follows is a list of Furl's features to help you see the big picture of all the things you can do with Furl. We believe you'll find that Furl solves your problems easily and simply, and that you'll love using it as much as we do.

Bloglines is a FREE online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. With Bloglines, there is no software to download or install -- simply register as a new user and you can instantly begin accessing your account any time, from any computer or mobile device. And it's FREE!

Bloglines is a window to a whole new world of dynamic content that is being created and distributed over the new "live" web. You can make your own personalized news page tailored to your unique interests from our index of tens of millions of live internet content feeds, including articles, blogs, images and audio. And it's FREE!

Bloglines shields you from the confusion of news feed standards -- RSS, Atom, and others. Bloglines allows you to search for, read and share any updates from your favorite news feed or blog regardless of its authoring technology. And it's FREE!

Last, but not least, Bloglines provides you with the tools you need to begin creating your own clip blogs and blogrolls. Become a publisher, share your thoughts and opinions! And it's FREE! Get started today!.

Bloglines offers the most features for people who like their online news to be fresh. It’s the most popular website of its kind, indexing millions of new online articles every day.

Key Features of Bloglines:

• All-in-one Blog and news feed search, online subscriptions, news reader, blog publishing and social sharing tools
• Available in 10 languages
• Mobile version optimized for handheld computers and cell phones
• Email subscriptions help manage your e-newsletter traffic
• Package Tracking (UPS, USPS & FedEx)
• Custom weather forecasts
• Quick Pick Subscriptions get new users started quickly and easily
• Personalized recommendations to find new subscriptions
• Bookmarklet for single-click subscriptions to any source
• Notifiers for all browser types to remind you when new articles have arrived
• Bloglines Saved Searches deliver future articles matching your key words and phrases
• Most Popular lists show the days hot topics and which blogs are getting the most noticed
• Handy add-on tools for bloggers such as automated blogrolls, subscription buttons

Mister Wong is Europe's largest portal of its kind, with over two million visitors per month. The service was founded by Kai Tietjen in March 2006. Though it started in German, Mister Wong is meanwhile available in Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and French. The German version already has over two million linked websites saved by its users.

1. Save your favorite websites

Mister Wong offers you an interesting way to save all of your favorite websites in a personal account, which you have access to online no matter where you are, whether it's at work, home, on your laptop, at university, internet cafés, and even on your cell phone. With the use of tags, you can organize your favorite bookmarks comfortably and individually. You decide whether you you want to make your bookmarks private, so that only you can see them, or public for all to see. From all public bookmarks Mister Wong becomes an ideal peer-to-peer search engine, where you can search for subjects by tags.

2. Search by interest or what's new and popular

With Mister Wong, websites that have been saved by lots of users get higher rankings. This new trend is called social bookmarking, and is an excellent addition to traditional search engines, because exceptionally good search results can be found. Use Mister Wong to find the best websites covering a range of subjects, sorted by "most popular", "brand new" and "hot now". On Mister Wong's homepage, you will also find a list of recommended currently popular websites.

Anyone can participate. It's absolutely free. Registration only takes two minutes. Start bookmarking!

Wong the web :)

Your own bookmarks page

On Netvouz you get your own bookmarks page (example) which gives you a good overview of your favorite web sites and quick access to them. You organize your bookmarks in folders and tag each bookmark with keywords so you easily can find them. On your bookmarks page you can also search among your own bookmarks as well as other users' public bookmarks.

Public and private bookmarks

Your bookmarks can either be public, allowing your friends and anyone else visiting Netvouz to use them or private, protected by a password. Or both - you can have some bookmarks public and some private.

Hotpicks

The bookmarks you use most often can be marked as "Hotpicks" and are then always displayed on the top of your bookmarks page. Always at hand!

Automatic link checking

Web sites come and go, and they move... Our automatic link checker cares about your links and regularly verifies that all your bookmarks are valid and alerts you in case they are not. And if a web site is moved permanently we automatically update your links to point to the new address.

Easily bookmark new sites

Using the Add2Netvouz button, adding new bookmarks is as easy as clicking a button in your browser whenever you come across a new web page you want to bookmark.

Import and export

Easily import your existing browser bookmarks to Netvouz - and export them back if you want to. We currently support importing bookmarks from Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox (and any other browser using the Netscape bookmarks file format), Opera, del.icio.us, RawSugar, and Kaylon Powermarks 3.5 as well as Netvouz proprietary XML format. Your bookmarks can be exported to HTML format (which can be imported into Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Opera etc.) or Netvouz proprietary XML format.

RSS, JavaScript and HTML feeds

All public bookmarks are available as RSS, JavaScript and HTML feeds so you easily can subscribe to them in an RSS viewer, or automatically display them on your blog, if you have one.

Clean user interface

Netvouz has a clean user interface which loads very fast, even over slow connections.

Getting started wizard

After signing up our getting started wizard will get you going in no time!

In the beginning there was no Slashdot. Bored and confused geeks would scribble "First Post" in the sand. Grits were strictly for consumption and there wasn't a place to get nerd oriented news. Then in September of 97

Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda changed all that. With the help of Jeff "Hemos" Bates and others, Slashdot has stumbled forward with the simple mission to provide 'News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters'.

Today Slashdot is owned by SourceForge, Inc., but it is still run by many of the same people as it was 'Back in the Day'. Today we serve millions of pages to hundreds of thousands of readers. But the goal is still the same.

You can read more about each of the authors, including contact information, and figure out who to blame for what by reading The Authors Page. But the majority of the work is done by the tons of people who use the Submission Form to send in the stories that we post every day. Thanks go to them for helping make this site the cool place that it is.

If you like this site, feel free to steal some of the various pretty pictures we've got here and post them on your homepage, your moms homepage, or even your employers. You can see the whole collection at The Slashdot.org Supporters Page.

If you're confused about any of this, it might help you to read The Slashdot FAQ to find out all the secret bits of information about how things function and what they mean.

If you are seeking advertising information for Slashdot, or other SourceForge, Inc. sites, you should visit The SourceForge Advertisement Introduction

for all sorts of information on how your ads can be seen by our hundreds of thousands of daily readers.