Traffic Trends for Social News Sites

Published at August 29, 2008   Filed Under Internet   0 Comments  

Royal Pingdom published a new report on traffic trends for social news sites. The study reminds us there are some fast growing social news sites other than Digg to consider for promoting your posts. The sites included in this study are Digg, Stumbleupon, Slashdot, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller, Newsvine, Fark, Dzone and Sphinn.
Google Trends is used [...]

Yahoo Buzz Will Open to Small Publishers Soon?

Published at July 8, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0   1 Comment  

Yahoo Buzz launched in February in beta with some high profile sites and later expanded to some other sites. But it never allowed small publishers in to the program. I myself applied to the program when it was launched, but never heard back from them. Today after more than 4 months since i applied i [...]

Yahoo Buzz Launched

Published at February 26, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0, Yahoo   1 Comment  

The much anticipated Digg clone (sort of) from Yahoo, Yahoo Buzz Launched. Yahoo Buzz stories are not submitted by users but they are aggregated from news sources, users can vote on these stories to move them to the front page.
Foe each news story it shows a buzz factor which is determined by various factors [...]

Screenshots of Yahoo Buzz - News Aggregator

Published at February 15, 2008   Filed Under Web 2.0, Yahoo   3 Comments  

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Yahoo Buzz is a new upcoming service from Yahoo, according to Valleywag it will launch on February 26th. Yahoo is quickly launching so many products after the Microsoft bid.