Yahoo buzz launch, Digg town hall meeting, Friendfeed launches publicly.

Yahoo Buzz Launched last night without much fanfare.

Currently Yahoo is not taking on any new publishers which in my opinion is counterproductive for a newly launched site. Word has it you must run Yahoo advertising in order to publish your news content on buzz. For a site only given three months to prove its worth, I do not think it is going to be around long. Yahoo buzz doesn’t even show as a frequently visited destination on the Yahoo.com domain.

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Yahoo Buzz Launches (TechCrunch)

The Digg town hall meeting wasn't much of a meeting. In an attempt to calm a core Digg user base Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson attempted to address some concerns, many went away unimpressed with the meeting. Rather than being a round robin of questions and answers, only 20 questions were selected and responded to. I hate to tell you but that is not a town hall meeting, it is a press conference. One of the common questions posed to the Digg executives was whether Digg would be acquired or not. Both Jay and Kevin declined to comment (as usual). I supposed if you are a hardcore Digg user, you might come away with a little more information on Digg’s direction and changes, but for the most part it was simply a one-way communication *to* users and not a conversation *with* the users.

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Digg’s Inaugural Town Hall (Webware)

Digg Town Hall on Ustream LiveBlog and Digg Townhall: Thoughts and Responses (Mashable)

Friendfeed launched publicly yesterday. Friendfeed is similar to Facebook’s news feed, it aggregates a users content such as blog posts, Twitter posts, videos and photos. Friendfeed also has an *ego booster* built into the application that allows your friends to comment on items and even vote if they like it. With so many news and social aggregators popping up I think that Friendfeed has its work cut out to attract and keep users. A recent addition to the social aggregation niche is Iminta, which does much of what Friendfeed does and has several unique features. I think we are going to see a flood of social aggregators in the next year or so. Who will be king of social aggregation? Your guess is as good as mine.

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Friendfeed, the best software for conversations (VentureBeat)

Friendfeed Raises $5m, Opens to Everyone (TechCrunch)

Friendfeed Gets $5m, Launches to the Public (Mashable)

As always, I enjoy reading your comments!
Allen

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