Comments on: Yahoo Buzz Launching Soon

By: New Yahoo Buzz Screenshot Preview | North Rock Publishing

New Yahoo Buzz Screenshot Preview | North Rock Publishing — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:57:07 +0000

[...] I saw the post over at TechCrunch writing about the upcoming relaunch of Yahoo Buzz and how it was morphing into a DIGG style voting [...]

By: InternalComms · La Comunicación Interna en Yahoo!

InternalComms · La Comunicación Interna en Yahoo! — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:33:18 +0000

[...] TechCrunch, el “poster” fue filtrado por un ex empleado de la compañía. Si bien es muy probable [...]

By: Yahoo! запустила свой Digg.com | All About Sports

Yahoo! запустила свой Digg.com | All About Sports — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:07:23 +0000

[...] Yahoo! Buzz, слухи о запуске которого наши западные коллеги распространяли еще на той неделе. Двойная согласная в названии, [...]

By: VideoGuru 4 Yahoo

VideoGuru 4 Yahoo — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:41:33 +0000

It would seem that Yahoo is searching for the next killer Application. I thought Yahoo already had this “buzz” product. Is this like new and improved head and shoulders. Next killer app for yahoo will incorporate video.

By: startscratch

startscratch — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 13:10:35 +0000

I can’t wait for the yahoo buzz to come out, I’m very interested in what it will be like.
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By: SG

SG — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:03:14 +0000

Why does Yahoo keeping repeating these silly mistakes. Seems like some 9 year old is creating plans and strategies in this company. Use to be a good company with good researchers as well. Seems like it has a become a goat-rodeo session.

By: James Pong

James Pong — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 05:03:46 +0000

Hey, I thought it’s already launched. It’s not even a Digg-clone or close to being one. I believe Yahoo cleverly connect the Buzz with its search results to increase Page Views for both sites.

http://www.monk...s-launched.html

By: techcrunch readers...

techcrunch readers... — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 02:23:02 +0000

@29

I think the movie critic analogy would work better if this group of readers had tastes that represent most web users. The big important critics spend some time thinking about what the masses will like, and give a nod to that in their critique.

In this case, the great majority of Yahoo users are not digg users, so they could care less if this comes second to market… It’s new to them!

So the success of the product will be based on whether folks like the stories it comes up with — this is much more important than what some self-important tech blog readers think. I hope that doesn’t hurt your ego too much — but it’s the same reason that even amongst the startups that techcrunch loves, only a handful go big. It’s the regular users that decide. Sorry.

By: Will Merydith

Will Merydith — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:42:51 +0000

Yahoo Buzz sounds like Newsvine. A good model to copy.

By: Joe T

Joe T — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:29:02 +0000

The guy hanging from the sign is Jerry Yang’s little-known cousin, Derwood (the black sheep of the family.)

Derwood is best known for his failed video social networking site MeTube.

By: Kevin H

Kevin H — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:49:58 +0000

*Will the average Yahoo! user (mom40+) be interested in voting for stories? *

Who knows until someone tests the market.

There’s one thing for sure, the main Yahoo demographic probably don’t even know what digg is.

It probably hasn’t cost them very much in the scheme of things to role this out – they already have the infrastrucure and design and development teams. Plus they already have their own global marketing channel – they can get the message out about this to tens if not hundreds of millions of people at virtually no extra cost. They also have enormous brand recognition and trust with that massive older demographic which are being ignored by many web 2.0 companies.

By: Scott from not popularo at all

Scott from not popularo at all — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:04:25 +0000

In trembling fear of Yahoo launching a digg clone the same day we were going to launch our digg clone, we will shift our launch to the next day. And fold the following week. Anybody have any good ideas we can rip off next? This was our only one.

By: Mahei

Mahei — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:55:11 +0000

I’ll DIGG it!…lol

By: Vinay

Vinay — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:54:41 +0000

Lets welcome the Buzz from Yahoo! Hope its a big one like what Q&A was!

By: Alex Hammer

Alex Hammer — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:06:01 +0000

What would be (to my mind) more impressive than a Digg clone, and more needed (and what came to mind with the term Yahoo Buzz) is – for lack of a better term – a “web intelligence” site, where one can really learn what is happening across the web (not that Digg doesn’t provide some of this already). Specifically, more of a business intelligence for the web. More than web numbers like Alexa, Hitwise, Compete, and more than trends like Google trends, but highly actionable information (BuzzMetrics, I think it’s called, is a good start of what I mean).

With information overload in spades, and web 3.0 on the horizen, making sense of what is available will increasingly become, perhaps, THE competitive advantage.

Yahoo, with its huge suite of consumer services, is (could be) well poised to lead such an effort.

By: Amit Raman

Amit Raman — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:59:24 +0000

Another Yahoo! failure.

By: Joe T

Joe T — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:36:26 +0000

Y! Should merge with E! and become EY!!

Or maybe it should mate with O and become YO!

By: Jayner

Jayner — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 20:39:15 +0000

There’s a lot going on in their internal poster. The blonde lady on the left looks to be the Product Manager and was probably criticized for all the energy she spent on making sure she was positioned above the Y! buzz logo (prime real estate). The guy with the backpack to her right is looking down at the guy holding on for dear life thinking, die, give me a sweet package and allow me to interview at Google openly (probably a sick front end developer). And wait, is that Jerry Yang hanging on for dear life? He’s trying to make it look like he’s holding on but that grin says “who’s driving me to the bank because I’m laughing too hard to drive?!” The young lady to Fake Jerry Yang’s right looks to be a very talented designer that’s completely oblivious to what’s going on. At the end of the day, Yahoo just provides her with free health care but the fulltime job kind of gets in the way of all her lucrative freelance design work. Lastly, the guy hiding on the right, any suggestions on what the metaphor is here?

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:14:15 +0000

@#28: I think it does matter what TC readers think. If I’m not mistaken, that’s why the site’s writers report on these releases. In many ways the TC readers are the same as movie critics. While #28 or a film’s cast may not care about what critics think, it does affect the general public’s perception of the quality. More importantly, TC and this thread sets the tone for tech reporters worldwide. Sorry, I think it matters quite a bit what TC readers think.

By: techcrunch readers...

techcrunch readers... — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:48:07 +0000

The funny thing is that it doesn’t matter what techcrunch readers think about this. This product is not for you — digg is for you, and go ahead and keep using it (it’s cool). Last time I checked though, Yahoo had half a billion users, most of them are not interested in digg — this product is for *them*.

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:07:13 +0000

Y! you have a decent track record with acquisitions. Aside from the difficulties in merging these sites (mybloglog, flickr, etc) with existing Yahoo memberships (the UI here is not the best), the products you’ve bought are actually pretty damn good. Stark contrast to the ‘me too’ products you’re building yourselves. Of course you have smart people working there and this is probably good for morale, etc, but what’s the real point? Rehashing old ideas (reddit, digg, propeller, hell even AOL beat you here with mgnet) is not a winning strategy. It also doesn’t say much for a company that’s struggling to remain relevant on the web. I wonder how this comment thread would have been if you had simply acquired a company that was already doing this? Worked with Flickr, yea? All that said, good luck with your launch – this was not intended to be a hate comment by any stretch.

By: John

John — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:12:51 +0000

It looks like a cheesy ad from the 1980s or something someone would see in an outdated textbook. It gives me no desire to check out their service. What were they thinking?

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:14:36 +0000

Surely Internal Motivating Exercise.

http://tekno-wo...ld.blogspot.com

By: Darren Stuart

Darren Stuart — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:18:31 +0000

I think this could actaully hurt digg in a big way. Digg are trying to attract a mainstream audience, Yahoo already has this audience and so if yahoo convert these people to buzz which isn’t going to be hard to do. Now what for digg? It’s turned its back on the early adopting tech crowd. Also if the commentors are a better quality on buzz they could lose ground to it.

By: aster

aster — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:28:55 +0000