Yahoo Buzz: Not a “Digg Killer”
Thursday, March 20th, 2008Everyone seems to be talking about Yahoo Buzz these days, and about how it’s going to give Digg a run for its money.
I don’t get it.
Sure, the site is new and shiny. But they have nothing on Digg so far.
- Users of Yahoo Buzz can only vote on stories, they cannot submit them.
- Only select sites can have their articles featured (read: really big blogs). Yahoo says they are in beta, and are currently not accepting publisher applications.
- I doubt Yahoo will ever let smaller sites be featured. They’ll most likely keep it weighted towards the bigger sites, with some lame excuse like “all the traffic would kill your site!”
I admit that the potential traffic from Yahoo Buzz is great. As Daily Blog Tips pointed out: (more…)
