Product Pulse – November 7, 2008

Posted November 7th, 2008 at 5:25 pm by Nicki Dugan, Blog Editor

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Fourteen years ago, devotees of WXYC, the college radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, fired up their computers and tuned in to the world’s first radio signal to be broadcast over the Internet. Now about 13 percent of Americans listen to radio online — still well more than those who subscribe to satellite radio. Here’s what we broadcast this week:

• 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 you can check out their voting and commenting history.
• Take me to your leader: The next POTUS might still have 73 more days before he takes office, but it’s not too early to send him a presidential communique — via photo. The Guardian has set up a Flickr pool for people who want to send personal photo messages to Barack Obama — whether you want him to end the war, fix healthcare, adopt that puppy, or prove you wrong. It’s worth a thousand words.
• Cinco de delicioso: A big happy 5th birthday to the team at Delicious (or Del.icio.us, for you die hards). But that’s not the only number five to be celebrated. They now boast more than 5 million users, all of whom have civic-mindedly saved more than 180 million unique URLs. Cupcakes all around.

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pavithran | November 7th, 2008 at 7:13 pm

Happy birthday delicious .. you rock big time :)

sanket | November 10th, 2008 at 5:08 am

Prior to Internet revolution Radio was actually considered as old technology but Internet actually helped to bring radio back to its actual position

Nick Trendov | November 14th, 2008 at 4:42 am

Buzz is Beautiful but Context is King.

As a storyteller comfortable in the international corporate environment I understand the beauty of buzz. Stories are what make the world go round and like Yahoo, here is a little bit of self-promotion, but only to give you the context. http://www.scenario2.com describes how I add context to content with a Story Lens.

Flicker I love, Yahoo I adore but drinking from the firehose is not fun as you elegantly describe in the Election News post from today.

The need to see, assess and act or not requires context and while Yahoo is brilliant at it, and better than all the rest, you must improve, quickly.

Consider how someone would feel if they stepped into a web site and the site re-arranged itself according to their immediate desire. This is possible though I need a little more functionality from Yahoo tools and time to put it together and in anticipation I have reserved altsitemap.com

Keep up the good buzz, but keep in mind context is king.

Cheers,
Nick