Because who wants an antisocial news site?
| Monday, November 10th, 2008 | --Sean |
For a social news site, Yahoo! Buzz always seemed surprisingly...not social. Vote aggregation counts for something, I suppose, but I never really felt like I was interacting with my fellow Internet user whenever I stopped by, which sadly also means there was much less reason to stop by altogether.
But that's all done with after the introduction of Comments for each story, where Yahoo! users can finally air their articulate and reasoned opinions, contributing to the overall betterment of Internet discourse! *cough* Oh, Yahoo! users... Irrespective of the quality of commenting, though, at least you finally have a place to let yourself be heard. Also, as far as I noticed, the Buzz audience is ridiculously more conservative than the Digg audience (though that's not a hard title to achieve), so, you know, there's our innovation right there.
Buzz is surfacing Updates based on your Profiles social graph, too, if you happened to have set that up. Feel free to read a bit more about it over at Yodel Anecdotal.