Getting the world buzzing

Posted May 20th, 2009 at 11:36 pm by Julie Demsey, Yahoo! Buzz

 8 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

Want to know what’s buzzing in Bangalore or Bollywood? Now you can, because Yahoo! Buzz is launching in India today, making it the first international version of the Web’s most visited social content service. Now, people throughout India can help bring the most buzz-worthy stories to Yahoo! India and beyond.

Today, Yahoo! Buzz in India is starting off with more than two dozen featured Indian publishers and we look forward to welcoming many more in the coming weeks and months. Since Yahoo! Buzz launched in the U.S. just over a year ago, more than 20,000 publishers from around the world have had stories “buzzed up.”

But that’s not all. We are introducing a new look for Yahoo! Buzz overall that more prominently features contributions from the site’s community. With our new “Buzz Updates” tab, we’re making it easier to follow the submitting, voting, and commenting activity of your friends and the larger Yahoo! Buzz community. And, you’ll also find it’s faster and simpler than ever to share the stories and videos you find most interesting, since we now automatically fill in the story headline and description when you submit a URL.

Take a look at the new Yahoo! Buzz:

And here’s the new Yahoo! Buzz in India:

Stay tuned for more about what’s next for Yahoo! Buzz, and in the meantime, keep buzzing and helping people find the most remarkable stories from across the Web.

Julie Demsey
Senior Director, Product Management, Yahoo! Buzz

Tagged: news, social media, yahoo! buzz, yahoo! india

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8 Comments Add your own

rualthan | May 20th, 2009 at 11:46 pm

the contents under Sci/Tech aren’t India related!

Catherine Warrouw | May 21st, 2009 at 12:15 am

wow………………

so cool

steve | May 21st, 2009 at 4:26 am

Yahoo ! Buzz in India ! Wow! Sounds Great ! Excited ! Long Live Yahoo!

Eliot | May 21st, 2009 at 8:36 am

They don’t need to be… We’re all global citizens, remember? I think the India site just has the same content as the US site (look at the Publisher Directory in the footer). But the Indian one counts votes from Indian users and the US one for US users…

Julie Demsey | May 21st, 2009 at 10:09 am

Thanks for the comments, everyone. As for content providers, as I noted, we’re starting with two dozen Indian publishers and expect that list to grow in the coming weeks. Our intent is to have the content be very localized. You’ll see it evolve over time. We also started small with Yahoo! Buzz in the US and now stories from more than 20,000 publishers have been buzzed up. Thanks for buzzing!

Harsh Agrawal | May 21st, 2009 at 11:02 am

Thanks for finally giving a nice feature for Indian users.
meanwhile how you are determining publishers?

SEO Bangalore | May 24th, 2009 at 9:38 am

Another successful achievements by you guys..
You rock!!!
At this time after knowing about Yahoo Buzz in India, I can only say at Yahoo quality really matters, being it mail, messenger, webmessenger, buzz, group, news, 360, answers, finance, sports, and off course SEARCH etc.. etc… keep up the good works.!!!

Rgds,
SEO Bangalore

dave | May 25th, 2009 at 10:20 am

Que vuelva la linea de tiempo cuando se busca los buzz up (noticias) para determinado término o palabras dadas
Más filtros para las noticias actuales (6,12,24hrs,7,30days)