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| Apr 18, 2011 | Yahoo announces the death of Buzz on April 21, but nobody cares | As part of Yahoo’s plans to shutter several major services, the company has announced that it will shut down Yahoo Buzz, its social news Digg competitor, on April 21.
But perhaps more interesting than Buzz’s imminent death is the fact that ... |
| Oct 19, 2010 | Y Connect, Yet Another Doomed "Me Too" Service From Yahoo | The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Yahoo is in the process of building a Facebook Connect-like feature called Y Connect (no joke) for media sites and publishers with the end goal of bringing more traffic to the revenue flat... |
| Aug 18, 2010 | Skype engineering chief jumps ship amidst tech blog comment debacle | Only a month after Skype’s new chief development officer, Madhu Yarlagadda, joined the company comes news that he’s leaving due to “personal reasons”, a company spokesperson told the New York Times today.
Of course, there’s a potentially ju... |
| Jun 6, 2010 | Yahoo Adds Facebook, Begins New Role as Social Network Aggregator | Yahoo has announced a series of changes set to roll out this week that integrate Facebook’s social networking service into various Yahoo properties, including Yahoo Mail and its homepage. Also included in the announcement is news of a refre... |
| Nov 8, 2009 | Splurb Surfaces The Most Popular Links Across Social Media Sites | 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 ... |
| Apr 23, 2009 | Kevin Rose Talks Digg, Ads, Dead Trees and Cool Hunters | Digg, which has spent four years trying to level the playing field and democratize media, will soon receive a facelift. According to Kevin Rose, Digg’s founder and chief architect, the site, which hasn’t changed much since its inception, wi... |
| Apr 1, 2009 | Want Success on Digg? Think Choc Chip Cookies | Some of us know what hitting the front page of Digg can do: send 20,000 – 200,000+ clicks through to a site. Some of us have even felt the blessing (or curse, depending on how you look at it) of the Digg Effect. But how much do you know abo... |
| Feb 26, 2009 | Surchur Relaunches Their “Dashboard to the Now” | Surchur, a web, blog, image, video, and social media search engine, has just relaunched their online dashboard. The company calls this an “update,” but it’s more like an overhaul of their earlier product. Launched back in spring of 2008, Su... |
| Feb 23, 2009 | Buzzwire Launches User-Driven Mobile News Site | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A growing number of online media companies offer mobile-friendly versions of their articles or videos, often resizing or stripping down the material to make it more easily acc... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | Yahoo's Top Searches For 2008 Are . . . The Same As They Were For 2007 | What is fascination with Britney Spears? Maybe it’s a train-wreck kind of thing. Once again she tops Yahoo’s list of overall searches for 2008, just like she did last year.
In fact, the entire list hardly changed at all. The term “WWE” was ... |
| Oct 13, 2008 | News aggregators and music jamming sites | Esther Dyson helps us evaluate Socialmedian and Indaba
We've come a long way from getting the news dropped off at our doorsteps. Even though I still read the paper version of the Wall Street Journal, most of the news is coming from emerging... |
| Oct 1, 2008 | Google Blogsearch Relaunches as Techmeme Killer, Across 11 Categories | In its first major upgrade ever, Google Blogsearch just relaunched and looks radically different. Instead of the blank page look of Google.com, Blogsearch now looks like Google News (but uglier) – with the hottest topics from the blogospher... |
| Sep 24, 2008 | Digg Doubles Its War Chest to Challenge Yahoo Buzz Internationally | Social news site Digg is announcing today that it has raised another $28 million from existing investors, bringing its sum total raised to more than $40 million. Remember when people used to tell stories about Digg rejecting VC money as too... |
| Sep 8, 2008 | Yahoo! May Put Blog Links on Every News Page | Yahoo! may be struggling financially, but when it comes to supporting the rest of the web with standards and generous links – they are in the lead among the the big search and advertising companies. Yahoo! Buzz has driven millions of viewer... |
| Aug 26, 2008 | Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? | Since our initial review of Yahoo! Buzz earlier this year, not much has changed about the service. At the same time, however, the perception, acceptance, and impact of the service has changed drastically. The service has shown that it can s... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | Yahoo! Opens Buzz Submissions to All – But is It Democratic? | Yahoo! Buzz, the social news service that launched in February and delivered giant piles of traffic to the lucky few websites that were indexed by the site, is tonight opening up to submissions from any site across the web. We warned that B... |
| Aug 18, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz Opens Doors To Everyone | Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight.
Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This... |
| Jun 26, 2008 | Does Open Sourcing Niche Web Apps Work? | Recently, we’ve seen a couple of our favorite web apps go open source. The code for FF To Go, the popular mobile client for FriendFeed developed by RSSMeme creator Benjamin Golub, is now available under the MIT license and Snackr, the RSS A... |
| May 13, 2008 | Too Many Choices, Too Much Content | Sometimes it’s just hard to keep up. In this technology-focused niche we all live in there are new applications, new initiatives, and new platforms that spring up every day, not to mention constantly breaking news that fills our RSS readers... |
| May 13, 2008 | comScore: Yahoo! Buzz Overtakes Digg in April | Digg is in big trouble. We already know that Yahoo! Buzz, a beta social news service by Yahoo!, can drive a large amount of traffic and comments to websites. We also know the ongoing problems at competitor digg, which continue to be skated ... |
| May 7, 2008 | Yahoo.com Sends a Ton of Talkative Traffic | Last night ReadWriteWeb got its first link on the Yahoo homepage, thanks to Yahoo Buzz – the beta social news service that is letting blogs get coverage on the world’s most trafficked website. Our initial turn on yahoo.com happened late at ... |
| May 1, 2008 | Yahoo! Tries to Spread Buzz, Adds Widgets, RSS | Yahoo! Buzz, Yahoo!’s Digg-killer social news site, has updated to add widgets, new RSS feeds, and an indicator of who first buzzed a story. Buzz, which is currently in beta, has also recently added a new round of publishers (including Read... |
| Mar 31, 2008 | Publish2 To Launch Digg Variation As Journalist Resource | Update: screenshot and additional details of Publish2 is here.
New startup Publish2 hasn’t launched or even entered private beta yet, but the company has scored $2.75 million in funding. The investor, Velocity Interactive Group, believes in... |
| Mar 16, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo Reveals Stats From The First Two Weeks | Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now nearly three weeks old. We asked Yahoo to share some of the data from those first two weeks.
The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories are linked from the Ya... |
| Feb 27, 2008 | Why Yahoo! Buzz is a Brilliant Idea | As soon as the online press got hold of a sliver of information about Yahoo! Buzz, the predictable cries of “Digg clone!” were loud enough to drown out anyone who thought that Yahoo! Buzz might be something more than a lame attempt at socia... |
| Feb 26, 2008 | Social News: Can the Digg/Mixx/Buzz Model Hold Up Against FriendFeed and Sphinn? | The social news space is developing at a mind-boggling pace. Just in the last 48 hours Yahoo! launched its new site Buzz, the increasingly mainstream site Mixx announced more funding and Digg held its first ever town hall meeting. Meanwhile... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz Launches: Popular Stories To Go On Yahoo Homepage | Yahoo launches the much anticipated Yahoo Buzz tonight – a Digg-like site that takes stories from pre-approved news publishers (100 to start) and let’s users vote on stories and push them up to the top of the page.
To see it in action, clic... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz hopes to generate more buzz than BuzzTracker did | Yahoo continues to roll out new services post-Microsoft offer, tonight launching Yahoo Buzz, a popularity-based news aggregator. The site will take into account a number of factors including votes, search frequency and times a story is emai... |
| Feb 22, 2008 | Yahoo Buzz Launching Soon | Half of the country’s tech bloggers and journalists, it seems, are under embargo around next week’s launch of Yahoo Buzz. Word has still leaked, likely from recently layed off Yahoo employees. We’re under embargo, too, so I can’t say much. ... |
| Dec 5, 2007 | Yahoo searchers love Britney, still looking for Saddam | Web searchers using Yahoo's portal seemed to be obsessed with Britney Spears again in 2007, and are continuing to search for Saddam Hussein.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. company's yearly list of top queries were quite celebrity-heavy this year, wi... |
| Aug 2, 2007 | Yahoo! Buzzlist versus Google Trends | As part of this week’s Read/Write Web Files, we’re looking at what may be on the cards in Yahoo’s 100-day strategy for getting its house in order. In the inaugural post of the week, Richard outlined his Top 10 Yahoo! Properties. And I’d lik... |
| May 22, 2007 | Google Gets Trendy | Google today launched an improvement to their Trends service, Hot Trends, which lists the top 100 break out searches of each day. These are not the top searches, but the ones that deviate the most from their normal search pattern.
Clicking ... |
| Dec 4, 2006 | Britney Owns Yahoo Searches…Again | Why are you people searching for Britney Spears!? She is hardly the eye candy she once was so I just don’t understand how she has topped Yahoo’s most popular search terms for the fifth time in six years but is appears that the flashing, div... |