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Yahoo Buzz comes buzzing in with for the world, making it alter the path which had been confined to a small percentage totaling to 400. The Digg like feature has nothing prominent enough to stand out from various services of the likes but one thing that makes it stand out is that the content submitted at Buzz, has a chance of making it to the Yahoo homepage.
Definitely something that pulls everyone’s attention, what could be better than having a chance to have your news being displayed on the front page of a site that is viewed by millions on a daily basis. A spokesperson at Yahoo confirmed the news and added:
It was always Yahoo’s intention to open up Buzz, but that it kept the service restricted while it worked out bugs and refined the product.
One finds it hard to digest as to what could possibly take so long to come out with such a service; we have quite a lot of them in the Websphere; like Digg, Reditt, etc. Perhaps the idea to feed stories to the Yahoo home page took quite a lot of effort at implementing and that has yet another shortcoming; Yahoo’s homepage is programmed manually and the amount of feeds publishers have for submission just takes its toll at the limited speeds with which human editors operate.
The service enable sharing of feeds across various services, including Digg and Stumbleupon; which means you aren’t confined to sticking your news at Buzz alone and then submitting it elsewhere too. Why would publishers make a run for it? Rafe Needleman rightly calls it a carrot worth a run for and the reason as we have already mentioned is the battle for making it to the Yahoo Front page. I bet votes will be dearly fought for at Buzz in due time.
You sure are right, it will be most exciting to watch publishers fighting for votes and trying to figure out the ways to game the system in as many ways as possible.