As we reported earlier, Yahoo! Buzz is now in public beta. Buzz is similar to Digg in that it lets users promote/demote ("Buzz") content to the top of the metaphoric hive. However, currently only publishers involved in the beta can have content submitted to the site, which makes Buzz (much) more restricted than Digg.Yahoo says that they have "members of their team" choose promoted stories to appear on the Yahoo homepage, but they do not choose what appears on the Buzz site. Like Digg, Buzz uses an algorithm to determine a story's "Buzz Score" based on number of votes, number of times the story is shared, and the number of search results for the story's subject matter.
If you want to start Buzz-ing, you'll need a Yahoo account. Then, like Digg, click the voting button next to the story to promote a story. Oddly you can also submit stories directly to other social news sites (including Digg). You won't yet be able to view your voting history, and Buzz lacks "community features" like seeing what your friends have Buzz-ed. Oh, and you can't comment on stories on the Buzz site.
So if you want a featureless Digg clone with stories coming only from a specific set of sources, then try Buzz now! But hey, it's still in beta.
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2-26-2008 @ 2:23PM
Bill said...
Im kinda fed up of you guys slamming yahoo the whole time. Buzz is a great idea and for its first day in beta, i don't thinks its a bad service. Give it a chance at least. just because download squad doesn't have much buzz....
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2-26-2008 @ 2:37PM
Todd Ritter said...
So you're saying it's different than Digg? And how COULD we have "Buzz" since they limit from which sources content can be submitted.
Also, it would be childish of us to slander (if you can even call this article slander) a service because they don't like DLS (which I never said or implied or can even be gauged).
2-29-2008 @ 5:39PM
shuron said...
That's why I believe Yahoo is not a competitor to DIGG. Of course why should it be? So they even didn't allow to post everyone every content. They have much of own content they wanna provide.
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