Buzz On
| Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 | --Sean |
We've long had a buzz index to keep track of the happenin' stories on the web, largely based on search volume and discussed in a blog hosted at buzz.yahoo.com.
buzz.yahoo.com is dead not dead yet*; long live buzz.yahoo.com!
The newest incarnation of Yahoo! Buzz keeps the general principle of surfacing content based on general "buzz" about the Internet (including search volume, number of times recommended via email, etc), but then layers over top of that a social voting system and pretty rounded buttons. It draws from limited sources versus letting users submit stories, so it'll be interesting to see whether the content pool is deep enough to keep people coming back. The buzziest stories may end up on the top page of Yahoo!, though, which is certainly a huge reward for folks seeking traffic, so hopefully that'll be the spark needed to keep a steady supply of stuff to buzz up.
* Whoops, the Buzz Log is still available. Yay!