Yahoo! Buzz

Infobox Website
name = Yahoo! Buzz



caption =
url = http://buzz.yahoo.com/
type = Social content website
registration = Free
owner = Yahoo!
author = Yahoo!
launch date = February 26, 2008
current version = Beta
revenue =
employees = 11,400 (2007)

Yahoo! Buzz is a community-based news article website, much like Digg, that combines the features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control. Users can be allowed to publish their own news stories, and link to their own or another person's site that links to a full story of the information, therefore driving traffic to that person's website and creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or smaller, privately owned websites.

Yahoo! created the service in hopes that it would drive larger traffic to their site and would give them an advantage over larger online media companies such as Google or MSN, which are Yahoo!'s largest competitors in terms of search engines that provide services and web features to its customers. Unlike other social networking sites, Buzz allows the publisher to modify the submission. [cite news|url=http://buzz.yahoo.com/submit/|title=Submit a Story|publisher=Yahoo Buzz]

ee also

* Yahoo!
* Digg
* Web 2.0
* Social bookmarking

References

External links

* [http://buzz.yahoo.com/ Yahoo! Buzz's official website]
* [http://buzzup.org/ Buzzup.org]