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Digg’s Problems Aren’t Going to Be Easily Fixed
Technologizer — ... ), and also gave birth to Yahoo Buzz . Both those services did or have some editorial control over submissions. Digg has repeatedly refused to exert any over its own site, preferring to hand the keys over to Diggers. Therein lies the problem. Rose is lamenting that the site needs to move beyond geekdom and get “real world relevance.” The way Digg is currently set up, that’s just not going to happen. When your user base is generally the same subset of online users, they are going to probably like the same thing. Stories of a particular type will always rise to the top, while ...

McCain Repeats Ayers Attacks: WAUKESHA, Wis. — Republican presidential candidate John McCain said Thurs.. http://is.gd/3Oy3
Politweets — ... Name yahoobuzz Location California Web http://buzz.yahoo... Bio The Web's most remarkable stories, determined by people like you. Stories are ranked based on your votes, emails, and searches. ...

Yahoo in the Hands of Developers
Mashable! — ... is still considered to have the largest user base for a personalized homepage. Yahoo Mail is still one of the largest Web mail installations. Yahoo Buzz has been known to drive a million visitors to a highlighted page. Now Yahoo is planning to hook all of this together. ...

Yahoo Buzz Gets More Social and Continues its Assault on Digg’s Mainstream Ambitions
Mashable! — ... Yahoo Buzz has just added a bunch of new features that make the site more social and more connected with the new Yahoo universal profiles. It also makes it look even more like Digg, but with Yahoo’s mainstream user base. ...

Product Pulse - November 7, 2008
Yodel Anecdotal — ... Social buzz: Yahoo! Buzz is the latest to get into the open game. A new Updates section on Yahoo! Buzz lets you keep track of stories that your friends have buzzed up or down. Also new is a “Comments” section for individual stories so that you can weigh in with your own opinion and further the conversation. What’s more, you can give a thumbs up or down to other people’s comments, or reply to them. Lots of opportunity to mouth off! And you’ll find a personal activity hub for each of your contacts (provided they want you to see it) so ...

Will Yahoo Buzz Trip Over StumbleUpon?
Mashable! — Chris Lynn is a social media specialist, working with clients from the Marketing, Online Advertising, Mobile, Consumer Tech, and Social Media industries. He also edits socialTNT, a blog on new media, marketing and PR. Over the last couple of months, Yahoo Buzz has slowly built up its features, seemingly setting its sights on top player Digg. Likewise, StumbleUpon has also upped the ante, adding new features to further court the growing social browsing market. While Yahoo Buzz may not yet be ...

Yahoo! Buzz Rolls Out New Publisher Landing Pages
Search Engine Journal — ... Aside from the new features of its various online products, Yahoo is also rolling out some for Yahoo! Buzz. Specifically, Yahoo Buzz Publisher can now have new landing pages that they can use to display submitted content and related Buzz activity for their “Buzzed up” contents. These landing pages would have publisher-specific Yahoo! Updates modules and RSS/Add-to-My Yahoo! Buzz feeds. ...

Yahoo! rolls out new Yahoo! Buzz Publisher Landing Pages
D' Technology Weblog — ... , Yahoo! also rolled out a new landing page for Yahoo! Buzz Publisher to display submitted content and related Buzz activity for their “Buzzed up” contents and RSS/Add-to-My Yahoo! Buzz feeds.  If you’re one of the Publishers granted access to Yahoo! Buzz Publisher network, you would need to add your site description and logo in the Buzz Publisher Tool. You can add the description by clicking “Edit My Profile” in the Buzz Publisher tool. You should have also submitted your site ...

Broadband Content Bits: Kutcher, Slide Launch KatalystHQ; Yahoo Buzz
paidContent — ... ) is developing a half-hour show around its news- and trend-spotting property "Yahoo Buzz"; News Corp.'s Twentieth Television will co-produce. The show will cover the day's top 10 stories as ranked by the site; former MTV VJ Ananda Lewis has been floated as one of the co-hosts ( ...

Britney Spears, WWE & Barack Obama: The Future Of Internet Media?
Podcasting News — ... Does this mean that you need to talk about Britney Spears, Barack Obama & WWE? Probably not. Unless you can offer really unique perspective on these topics, your work is likely to get buried.  What it does mean, though, is that there’s a huge opportunity to expose your work to more people, if you can create unique content that is timely and of interest to the millions of people searching for content about popular topics.  Nalts suggests Yahoo Buzz & Twitscoop as tools for getting ideas for his shows.  Is topicality ...

Buzzwire Launches User-Driven Mobile News Site
Xconomy — ... in that many of the stories are contributed by readers, and it’s similar to Yahoo Buzz in that stories are ranked according to how many people are clicking on them and sharing them. It differs from both Digg and Yahoo Buzz, however, in that users can’t actually vote stories up or down—the rankings are calculated by Buzzwire’s own algorithms. ...

Happy birthday, Yahoo! Buzz
Yodel Anecdotal — Tonight, the Yahoo! Buzz team has party hats on in celebration of its first year. What’s that, you say? You don’t know Yahoo! Buzz? It’s where you go to find the Web’s most remarkable stories, determined by people like you. Chances are you’ve read one of the millions of articles that have been “buzzed up,” commented on or featured on the Yahoo! homepage and across Yahoo! sites over the past year. Since Yahoo! Buzz is open to all publishers, the site features stories from tens of thousands of sources –- from the most prolific sites, to the truly ...

Happy birthday Yahoo Buzz. Who are you again?
VentureBeat — ... Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Reddit, Delicious. These are all social sites that are well known for sharing stories with a massive amount of people. Yahoo Buzz? Not so much. But apparently, it does. And today is its first birthday. ...

Surchur Relaunches Their "Dashboard to the Now"
ReadWriteWeb — ... view into the "real-time web" - that is, what's happening on the internet right now. Sponsor About Surchur The Surchur web site isn't only a search engine with an empty box awaiting your queries. It also serves as a dashboard-style homepage where the latest web trends are tracked on an ongoing basis. When you first visit surchur.com, the main page features the trending topics on Yahoo Buzz, CNN, Google Trends, Twitter Search, and Technorati ...

Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies
ReadWriteWeb — ... to have Digg users looking at your content, you'll hit front page," Buch said; a tip that should not be dismissed too quickly. Give Visitors a Customized Experience In a recent experiment with Conde Nast's Wired, Digg tracked changes on Wired's site to see what, if any effect they would make. Originally Buch explained, the site had a 'share this' button but upon close inspection of traffic logs, discovered the majority of traffic came from Digg, Yahoo! Buzz and StumbleUpon. So they pulled those buttons out of the 'share' widget ...

Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters
ReadWriteWeb — ... sites. "We can help them understand where their traffic is coming from, let them know more about their users and what they like." "And if you know what people like, you can serve better quality ads." Whether you're a blogger working in your basement or a journalist at the New York Times, it makes no difference. If your content is good, it will get noticed by Digg's cool hunters. Yet not every social site can do this. While many have tried, (Reddit, Mixx, Yahoo Buzz etc.), Digg has always been the leader in consistently leveling the media playing ...

Getting the world buzzing
Yodel Anecdotal — ... Today, Yahoo! Buzz in India is starting off with more than two dozen featured Indian publishers and we look forward to welcoming many more in the coming weeks and months. Since Yahoo! Buzz launched in the U.S. just over a year ago, more than 20,000 publishers from around the world have had stories “buzzed up.” ...

Yahoo Buzz Gets a Facelift, Goes to India Too
Search Engine Journal — ... . It’s not really a huge site facelift but one that now prominently features contributions from the Yahoo Buzz communities.If you’re a frequent Yahoo Buzz visitors and an active member of the community, you’d immediately noticed the difference.  Frankly, I rarely visit the site so I couldn’t reall tell the difference between the current and the previous layout. ...

Yahoo! Buzz Updates “New design, and features” added; Launched in India
D' Technology Weblog — ... to bring the most buzz-worthy stories to Yahoo! India and beyond. Also, introduced a new look for Yahoo! Buzz, a new “Buzz Updates” tab, make it easier to follow “submitting, voting, and commenting activity of your friends and community”. Finally, it’s easier and faster to share stories and videos, as Yahoo! automatically fill in the story headline and description when a URL is submit. ...

Huff Post + Facebook = ‘Social News’
Screenwerk — ... There are a plenty of “buzz” sites (e.g., Yahoo! Buzz, Digg) and newspapers have had community integrated for some time. But the HuffingtonPost is using Facebook Connect for a “ ...

Yahoo! rolls out first video ad in new marketing campaign... about You
Download Squad — ... 55 seconds, Yahoo! clearly wants you to hear the word "you" a lot. And that ad is certainly dynamic, features vibrant colors, and locations from five different countries. But you have to wait until the last few seconds of the ad to even find out what the company is... and there's absolutely nothing in the ad to explain how you'll be able to "consumer, share, buzz, destroy, earn, flirt, or watch." Of course, a TV spot that showed Yahoo! Messenger, Mail, Buzz, Video, or other web-services would be a heck of a lot less interesting. ...

Splurb Surfaces The Most Popular Links Across Social Media Sites
TechCrunch — There are many sites that show trending links across the web including TweetMeme, Topsy, and Bit.ly. Recently launched splurb is now in the mix with its site that shows the most popular links that are trending on social media sites. splurb currently indexes Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, TweetMeme, Yahoo Buzz and Fark. Splurb tallies the number of votes from the various sites and number of sources that list links. The more sources that cite a link, the larger the story ...