Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage

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1. Gregg
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

   “To see it in action, click on the buzz button at the end of this, or any, of our posts.”

   What Buzz button?

2. bob cobb
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:05 pm

   Yeah, not seeing it

3. Michael Arrington
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

   yeah, it hasn’t launched yet for some reason. and the button doesn’t work. stay tuned.

4. Michael Arrington
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:12 pm

   yahoo says they’re wrapping up a couple of things, it should launch momentarily

5. YDRIVE
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:22 pm

   Yahoo! will continue to wow the world.. just a matter of time..

6. stagueve
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:24 pm

   You can test it here (alpha) :

   http://alpha.buzz.yahoo.com/ar.....9828df06f9

7. The Hater
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

   When is the last time Google released anything? In the past month we’ve seen:

   OpenSearch
   OpenID support
   Yahoo! Buzz
   Yahoo! Live

   Google talks, Yahoo! does. The behemoth awakes..

8. Markus
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:46 pm

   It looks really well done and probably the first digg like site the mainstream can actually use.

9. quinton
   

   February 25th, 2008 at 9:48 pm

   It looks decent so far, it’ll be interesting to see how it unfolds over the next couple of months allowing regular people to sign up as publishers.

10. Matt
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    @#6.. clever… got any more while we wait…

11. buzzzzzz
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    Here it is:

    http://alpha.buzz.yahoo.com/

12. Matt
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

    @11.. that was guarded by the bouncer not 10 minutes ago.. hehehe…. nice though.

13. JosefVirek
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:07 pm

    I think this will be the first real site that will be able to challenge Digg. Popular sites getting to the front page of Yahoo will be very exciting to publishers.

14. Zeplin1 Phil
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:21 pm

    This “lack-of-BUZZ” product is so unimpressive is laughable. What is this? A Britney Opera aggregator, bec that is what it looks like.

    As a fan of Y! and the company I’m sad to see a product like this come from Y!’s doors.

    Mash, Buzz - What is this? Stop wasting engineering resources on products the people behind them wouldn’t even use.

15. Manish
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    buzz is live now

16. Psilens
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

    when i looked it up, it turned from “Y! Buzz” to “Y Buzz?”
    But it’s still a hopefully (maybe)

17. asgoodaspossible
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:33 pm

    Zeplin1 is right, Yahoo! is doing a horrible job on create a Digg Like Clone. They are wasting develop time and money on investing something that have no market value to user on Yahoo!

    Yahoo should more hard work on their search engine because that is still many to improve. and not wasting they resource on something like BUZZ…….

18. AD
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    I guess it would have been better acquiring digg.com than building a clone

19. flyboy
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 10:46 pm

    idiots #14, 17. you guys pretty much don’t understand anything, do you? read the stupid press release. You = intellectually reactive.

20. JosefVirek
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:00 pm

    @14 and @17, The No. 1 feature of great social news site: USERS. and Yahoo’s got ton of them.

21. Ryan Merket
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    As a new user coming in I was a bit confused by the layout. My eyes wanted to start scanning but there was a strange a bunch of photos sitting on a bright blue background screaming for my attention. So, like any good user, I gave it to them. Only to be quickly disappointed by the fact that I couldn’t get any content from them unless I took an action, and scrolled over them.

    As I tried to figure out the page, I realized that there is a lot of hidden elements. In fact, key UX elements are hidden until certain actions are taken. Tsk tsk.

22. aandarian
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

    why is bluelithium down?

23. kuldeep
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:47 pm

    You havent explained your opinion about this service…should they influence their search results too with this?

24. yongfook
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:53 pm

    they have some weird permissions problem on their CSS file at
    http://l.yimg.com/images.buzz....../front.css

    which is preventing the styles from loading right now. so it doesn’t look very pretty for me :/

25. CraziestGadgets.com
    

    February 25th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

    Nowhere near as user friendly, useful, or (most importantly) relevant as Digg.

    @7: Google just released Grand Central in beta. Much more innovative than this.

26. Neto
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    All i see when i open it is bulleted articles, you know that li, ol, ul thing? that’s what i see in FF, even in IE…lol

    Agree, they should have just bought digg.com, what happened to 360?? Oops.

27. PSP
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:07 am

    I like it, its interface is simpler than digg, very easy to use, digg should simplify their page like this, they are getter clutter.

28. flyboy
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    @25: Google bought Grand Central and released the beta. pretty innovative.

29. Brendan Jarvis
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:46 am

    stylesheet isn’t loading.

30. Planet Malaysia
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Does Microsoft or Google will follow the same trend? or Copy Cat

31. HonestMall.com
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 1:14 am

    digg for grown ups

32. Dominic
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 1:17 am

    @Brendan Jarvis

    Yeah, same thing here. Just a screen of unstructured content.

33. MyWayOnNow
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 2:03 am

    Why did Yahoo! buy BuzzTracker? …What a waste…

34. Darren Stuart
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 2:40 am

    so you can’t actually publish news to it unless you are a selected publisher? how is this social news? digg can rest easy this is plain stupid.

35. Gutts
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 3:15 am

    wow great site Yahoo, yet another resource hog like the wonderful yahoo beta mail, the same beta mail that has been in beta for almost 2 years.

36. yongfook
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 3:17 am

    @34 > maybe *shock horror* just maybe it isn’t even trying to compete with digg? Digg doesn’t have a monopoly on the idea of social feedback. Kudos to Yahoo for trying a different model.

    I love the people here whining about the content. Newsflash: this site is not meant to steal you away from Digg! I honestly hope that hell freezes over before Yahoo gives credit to the kind of content Digg routinely frontpages, like “top 10 tips for web designers” from some kid living in his mum’s basement with a pirated copy of dreamweaver or so-called entrepreneur trying to drum up more adsense revenue to pay for chzbrgrs. Yahoo partnering with professional publishers / pro blogs is an intelligent strategy and should definitely help them distinguish themselves from being just another blog noise promoter.

    I love Digg, but I totally see the point in this, and will most likely use both in the future.

37. website hosting
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 4:01 am

    Since user voting isn’t the only factor then it would be very hard to get on Yahoo! homepage.

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    February 26th, 2008 at 5:34 am

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39. Koray Al
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 5:48 am

    I don’t plan to follow this site until it has an RSS feed.

40. chrisco
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 6:23 am

    Wow, looks like a Buzznet clone in many respects. And I think Buzznet was there first… and has a trademark. See the similarity for yourself:

    BUZZNET:

    What the Buzz?
    Buzznet users cast their votes for their favorite content with the +Buzz buttons.

    Adding Buzz is like giving a thumbs up. Buzz is the way our community decides what’s cool. Plus-Buzz buttons throughout Buzznet show what’s bubbling up for our users:

    On the Homepage:

    YAHOO BUZZ:

    What’s all the buzz about?

    Yahoo! Buzz features the most popular stories right now, determined by people around the Web. A story’s Buzz Score is based on your votes, searches, emails, and more.

    Stories with the highest Buzz Score may be displayed on the Yahoo! homepage.

    Give your favorite stories the buzz!

41. Paul
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    Hot damn!

    It’s not going to replace Digg but it’s gonna be a damn awesome sight to see. Dogster was linked to from an article featured on the homepage and it nearly doubled our page views. I can’t imagine the traffic these sites will start getting when being linked to.

    Watch out!

    Yahoo! is one of the smartest, most capable sites out there. It’s hard to imagine that they’re having such a hard time holding the business together. I hope MSFT runs their business better than they do instead of running them both into the ground.

42. boxwine
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Terrible execution and another flop for Yahoo.

    And “Stories with the highest Buzz Score may be displayed on the Yahoo! homepage.”

    Keyword is “may”, they are going to censor the hell out of this service which makes it useless if it’s supposed to be a voice of the people.

    I give it 3 months before they can it.

43. Brendan Jarvis
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am

    @Dominic: Much better now that the stylesheet has loaded! Hopefull you can see the same now!

44. Chewbacca
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 11:15 am

    @36: Well said. I don’t think people are going to be force to pick one site or the other. In fact, they may (*shock horror*) use both! This is an interesting development in that website visitors can decide for themselves what they think is newsworthy, rather than having someone else decide for them.

45. Linda Buquet
    

    February 26th, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Check THIS out!

    Ever since Buzz launched last night, all Digg entries in MyYahoo feed reader go to a Yahoo 404 error page and won’t resolve.

    Coinkydink?

    I’m waiting for them to add “Visit Yahoo Buzz for the hottest stories” to the 404 page.

46. shuron
    

    February 29th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    In don’t think Yahoo Buzz can’t be a competitor to DIGG. One of the point is that not everybody can add his content to yahoo.