Let the buzzing begin
Posted February 26th, 2008 at 6:43 am by Tapan Bhat, Integrated Consumer Experiences
7 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News
We’re excited to introduce Yahoo! Buzz, a new way for you to tell us (and the world) what you think is cool, and in the process help make Yahoo.com, the favorite Internet starting point, even better. Yahoo! Buzz uncovers the most interesting and relevant content from websites across the Internet to bring more buzz-worthy stories to the homepage of Yahoo!.
How does this work? You cast your vote on the most interesting Web stories, images or videos about anything and everything – from a late-breaking political story on a major news site, to the coolest photo of the lunar eclipse, to a shocking celebrity gossip blog post that shouldn’t be missed. The best part is that the stories with the highest Buzz Scores – determined by combining your votes with organic search popularity rankings – may be featured on the Yahoo! homepage, giving you the power to influence what millions of people see on Yahoo!.
So whether its the latest Simon Cowell and Paula Abdul banter, the best dressed from the Oscar’s, or a new global report on climate change, tell us what you think is the best of the best on the Web. Make sure to look out for the “Buzz-Up” badges all over Yahoo! and across sites on the Web, or go to buzz.yahoo.com and browse through thousands of stories to vote for your favorites.
Don’t see the “Buzz Up” buttons on your favorite site? Down the road, you’ll be able to submit new things that you think deserve the Buzz, but for now we encourage you to contact the publishers about becoming part of the Buzz network.
And for the publishers reading this, hold tight, as we’ll be opening up Yahoo! Buzz with a new API and syndication and monetization tools just for you. In the meantime get your BUZZ on and start casting your votes!
Tapan Bhat
Vice President of Front Doors and Network Services
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J | February 26th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Cool GUI!
Tubby | February 27th, 2008 at 6:15 am
The only real problem with this is that most people are morons and I couldn’t care less what they think is important.
TRW | February 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Ironic that this post has a “Digg This” link at the bottom… :)
Trauken | February 27th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
“We’re excited to introduce Yahoo! Buzz, a new way to for you to tell us”
How did this get past the grammer check? I stopped reading at this point. Yes it does matter if someone is making far more than I and yet can not even put words together properly.
Yabb duh | February 27th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Yet another buz blog. Look out Perez.
Julie Han | February 27th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
@Trauken: Thanks for your eagle eyes. The error has been fixed, you can continue reading now.
Julie Han
Blog Team
Carl | March 6th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
I want to start using Buzz on my blog. When can we expect the API to be rolled out?
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