Did You Hear the Buzz? Yahoo!’s Social News System Opens

I got a note from Yahoo! about an hour ago announcing that their buzz site is now open to the public. IF you recall my previous post on the topic, Yahoo! is in position to be a serious competitor to popular news site digg.com.

If You Own a Site, Sign On

Yahoo! buzz allows users to submit news stories, and these stories are voted up by the sites’ community of users. By submitting your own stories, or placing buttons on your site that allow your readers to submit you can help drive traffic to the site.

Only time will tell if buzz can defeat digg.com, but for mainstream users and non-techies, it may just have what it takes.

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WhyDoWork Insider WhyDoWork 19 Aug 2008 10 Comments

10 Responses to “Did You Hear the Buzz? Yahoo!’s Social News System Opens”

Trent Brownrigg responded on 20 Aug 2008 at 10:18 am #

I’ve never been a big fan of digg so hopefully buzz does take them down!

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roschelle responded on 24 Aug 2008 at 9:38 pm #

I had seen the buzz up sign (button) on a couple of news magazine sites. I didn’t know it was available to everyone.

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Noobpreneur responded on 01 Sep 2008 at 3:51 am #

I guess Yahoo Buzz - with the back up of brand name and the resources - will easily move past Digg.

Cheers!

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Tess responded on 07 Sep 2008 at 6:13 pm #

Thanks for the info! I use Yahoo quite frequently, but didn’t know this was happening. I am a HUGE Digg user, so hopefully Buzz will work as well! Thanks again

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Elliptical training equipment responded on 12 Sep 2008 at 8:23 pm #

YUp, I am using this buzz to my great success, always open to new possibilities of promoting my sites
Noobpreneur responded on 13 Sep 2008 at 12:35 am #

Hmm.. My stories often get ‘buried’ - any tips on NOT to getting buried in Buzz?

Cheers!

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Enviormental Cleaning responded on 13 Sep 2008 at 11:00 am #

I agree with your post. Which is not something I will usually do! I enjoy reading a post that will make one think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
Ruby Web responded on 16 Sep 2008 at 2:33 am #

Yes I heard about it, but it seems like Twiiter has superceded them on this baby.

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Martin Malden responded on 24 Sep 2008 at 12:29 am #

Thanks for the heads up…

I do like the Buzz Widget - it’s a great way of getting fresh content onto your site and it’s reasonably configurable.

It would be even better, though, if they gave us some options on the colour!

Thanks again,

Cheers,

Martin.

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Ruby responded on 11 Nov 2008 at 12:49 am #

I’ve seen Yahoo! buzz and it’s not far from iGoogle’s news updates. But it looks great though.

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