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Rumor: Yahoo! to launch Digg competitor
Yahoo! Buzz as it will reportedly be known will be something of a cross between Digg and Google Trends. Top stories will be chosen through a combination of user votes and popular search results.
But Digg has one thing that Yahoo! Buzz won't. At least not immediately. And that's a list of links from an unlimited number of web pages. Yahoo! Buzz will only feature links to about 100 web publishers at first. Eventually the company will reportedly open Buzz up to the Yahoo! Publisher Network, which means that anyone who sells Yahoo! ads on their site could be featured on Yahoo! Buzz.
While that might sound like a good reason for people to sign up for the publisher network, as incentive to get more social networking traffic, it also means that Yahoo! Buzz is by definition going to be more limited than Digg, StumbleUpon, or other social news and bookmarking sites. But this is all rumor and speculation at this point. It's possible Yahoo! Buzz won't be as limited as Valleywag suggests. Or maybe it's not even real.
If you go to buzz.yahoo.com today you'll find a page with top search results trends. But if Valleywag is correct, that site will be the future home of Yahoo! Buzz.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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Ram said 7:52PM on 2-15-2008
Vallywag is right, the site URL is http://alpha.buzz.yahoo.com
I posted some more screenshots if you want to check.
http://www.teknobites.com/2008/02/15/screenshots-of-yahoo-buzz-news-aggregator/
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kingkool68 said 11:17PM on 2-15-2008
Yup, it's real. I've seen it. Expect to see Y! Buzz icons on lots of popular sites after Feb. 26th.
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The Tuesday Night Tech Show said 5:24PM on 2-16-2008
Yahoo needs to come up with something on their own, not simply copy another company. I wish Google would just swoop in and take this dumb company out by the knees already.
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