Comments on: Yahoo launches Digg clone with a twist

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:08:50 +0000

This seems to be little more than slick marketing with heavy tracking of stories. Yahoo’s going to be in the business of helping PR and ad firms create highly targeted content by analyzing what kind of stories (and phrasings) get the most attention.

Corporate linkbait, if you will.

It’s only a Digg clone if you know/care about Digg, which the *vast* majority of internet users do not.

By: Miracle Blade

Miracle Blade — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:06:38 +0000

Great! As if there weren’t enough Digg clones around already.

By: Chris krewson

Chris krewson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:53:59 +0000

Several of these sites are in the Yahoo! newspaper consortium — like my employer, the Philly Inquirer.

By: Rick Ellis

Rick Ellis — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:33:04 +0000

It’s a fine line between not wanting to include too many sites, and not offering enough breadth. One of the great things about Digg is that you run across stories that are bubbling under the radar. And I don’t see that on Buzz yet.

I just glanced at the entertainment index of stories, and everything on that section’s front page is drawn either from Yahoo News or one of the “Sugar” group of sites “Pop Sugar, GiggleSugar, BuzzSugar.”

That’s just not a wide-enough pool of stories, and there wasn’t anything there that made me think “Wow, I hadn’t seen that one.”

Even Fark’s Showbiz section manages to do that (assuming you work your way through the mentions of Star Trek and celebrity breasts).