Yahoo! Buzz

A social content website
http://buzz.yahoo.com/

• “On February 26th 2008 “Yahoo!” created a community-based news article website called “Yahoo! Buzz” where it is free to register on
• The website combines the two features of social bookmarking and syndication through a user interface that allows editorial control, Yahoo! Buzz allows the user to modify their submission
• Users can publish own news stories, they can also link to their own or another one’s website which then links to a full story of this given information
• Yahoo! Buzz is creating a larger market for sites that research and publish their own news articles and stories, such as CNN or other much smaller websites”

Potential basic idea:
• “Yahoo! itself wanted to drive larger traffic to their own “yahoo.com” website and hoped that it would give them an advantage over larger online media competitor companies like Google, the well-known largest website in terms of search engines”

How to use Yahoo! Buzz:
Buzzing is pretty easy. First of all, you have to register yourself on http://buzz.yahoo.com/. Secondly, you will find the “Submit a story” link on the right hand of the website. You will have to click on this link and then you will find a new web form to fill out. On this web form you will have to link your story, you will have to give the title of your story, a description, you will have to choose the category of your story and finally you will have to name the sort of your new article, which means if it is a text, a picture or a video. In the end you will get the opportunity to preview your article or story, now you only have to click on submit to put your story online.

Any unknown terms and definitions?
Social bookmarking: “a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage their bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata”
Metadata: “information about data. It is comparable to the traditional “bibliographical data” of books and articles in the sphere of print media”
Syndication: “to publish or broadcast simultaneously in a number of media”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_buzz 10/05/2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo_buzz 10/05/2009
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewUnsolvedquery.php?idThread=666997&idForum=2&lp=ende&lang=de 10/05/2009
http://dict.leo.org/forum/viewWrongentry.php?idThread=50920&idForum=3&lp=ende&lang=de 10/05/2009
http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/syndicate?view=uk 10/05/2009