Screenshots of Yahoo Buzz, a Digg competitor

The pace of of product launches from Yahoo is breathless — and with a whiff of desperation. On February 26, Yahoo plans to beta launch Yahoo Buzz as a competitor to Digg, and a tipster supplied Valleywag with screenshots. Buzz, built under the direction of VP Tapan Bhat, will begin with a limited number of publishers — about 100 — and will rank stories based on popular search results and user voting. By summer, Buzz will open to the entire Yahoo Publisher Network. In other words, if you let Yahoo sell ads on your site, it will allow your stories to appear on Buzz. Word is Yahoo plans to launch the site on buzz.yahoo.com, which currently tracks popular search results. Pics or it didn't happen? See the screenshots, below.

10:40 AM on Fri Feb 15 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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doshomik at 10:56 AM on 02/15/08
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Hmm, looks like yang want to avoide MS takeover anyway he can...
categorically at 10:58 AM on 02/15/08
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And I was begining to think Yahoo! was irrelevent. This shows they are on the cutting edge of Web 3.0. Propeller watch out!
fishneversleep at 11:10 AM on 02/15/08
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Somewhere, Jay Adelson just threw up a little.
Sunnduwn at 11:59 AM on 02/15/08
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Oh yummy economies of scale will be making the mad monies, surely. Buzz girl, you shifty hussie you.

It's hilarious to watch behemoths like Google, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft, et al., turn into 2nd rate design template factories for the same 10 fucking web ideas they bought, bartered, or C-w/C-y'd already.
rekwag22 at 12:22 PM on 02/15/08
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Do we need another digg? Try something new like nobosh or going after reddit.
Snarkotron at 01:49 PM on 02/15/08
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@DOSHOMIK: unless this is just a static mockup, it's unlikely this was built since the MSFT thing went down. I guess it is possible that it was an intentional "leak" of an upcoming product in reaction to the MSFT thing, but why? More likely, somebody's going to get in trouble! Let's hope we find out who so that VW can post their photo!
macbeach at 02:57 PM on 02/15/08
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Next week look for the meta-product called "What's This?"

It will consist of semi-working scraps of script code found left in emptied desks and abandoned computers, all put into production with random names. Users will be asked to come up with a better name and figure out what, if anything it is good for.

Only requirement is that none of it will ever connect to anything else in any way as per long-standing Yahoo policy.
Duncan at 03:36 PM on 02/15/08
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Time Yahoo renamed itself to Metoo
Ram-V at 04:49 PM on 02/15/08
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the url is [alpha.buzz.yahoo.com]
It was live few minutes back, but now its down.
I gathered some more screenshots
[www.teknobites.com]
darnitall at 08:31 PM on 02/15/08
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Nice eye candy. But Yahoo needs to figure out that it takes more than a slick interface to make a community. I prefer sites the put their members first like Reddit or VideoSift
buddhanature at 09:04 PM on 02/15/08
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There is a similar site which tracks the buzz on the net, but it tracks only stuff from India
[yiktik.com]
The word buzz has to be the most abused word of '08 I guess
keithldick at 10:05 PM on 02/15/08
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you mean I have been going to this site: [buzz.yahoo.com]

All this time and it's not even the same?...

Geeze!!! I am lost...
vizualbod at 02:53 AM on 02/16/08
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Yahoo people have no fantasy.
willontech.com at 05:38 PM on 02/17/08
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I'm guessing Yahoo doesn't own the domain for this site either? For the first time I find myself giving cudos to the clueless prod dev managers @ AOHell, atleast they actually acquire a domain for their clone products. It's like when Yahoo launched OMG! to combat TMZ... The problem is they don't even own OMG.com. All these sub-domains are making me queasy. At least AOL has the engenuity to create completely ridiculous and/or unpronounceable names for their products (see MGNET, Bluestring-not a tampon reference, etc).
Of course I suppose it helps Yang to a degree - when shareholders start throwing tantrums and want poorly performing assets spun-off.
How the hell do you spin-off a product when it doesn't even have it's own domain?
Can't w8 to call Time-Of-Death on this one.
XOOST at 02:02 PM on 02/18/08
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it looks pretty cool