http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/09/03/picture-yahoo-wants-you-digg-its-buzz Comments for "Picture This: Yahoo wants you to Digg its Buzz" en http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/09/03/picture-yahoo-wants-you-digg-its-buzz <!--paging_filter--><p><!--paging_filter--> <p><!--paging_filter--></p> <p>Yahoo is embracing social networking and link-sharing more than its breatheren -- so much so that it's referring users of Digg-clone Yahoo Buzz to competing sites like Digg, Stumbleupon and Facebook. Nothing like a social link voting site referring users to another social link voting site to create some circular traffic flow. I did <a href="http://valleywag.com/368864/how-i-gamed-digg-++-and-laughed-all-the-way-to-the-bank">something like that with Fark and Digg</a> once -- thank goodness, the Internet didn't blow up.</p> <p><img src="/sites/thestandard.com/files/u2482/yahoobuzzshare.jpg" height="318" width="387" /></p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span">More news, commentary, and predictions from<i>The Industry Standard</i>:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: bold" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-weight: normal" class="Apple-style-span">Special Feature: <b><a href="/news/2008/06/24/what-your-future-really-looks-digital-home-2013">The Digital Home of 2013: 10 consumer technologies that will succeed, and five that will fail</a></b></span><br /></span></li> <li>Special Feature: <b><a href="/news/2008/05/29/where-are-they-now">Where are they now? <i>The Industry Standard</i> tracks down 10 dot-coms from the Web bubble of the late 1990s</a></b></li> <li>Special Feature: <b><a href="/news/2008/05/14/industry-standards-top-25-b-z-list-blogs">The Industry Standard's Top 25 B-to-Z List Blogs</a></b></li> </ul> <p> </p> http://www.thestandard.com/news/2008/09/03/picture-yahoo-wants-you-digg-its-buzz#comments co:Digg co:yahoo Software &amp; Web The Industry Standard Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:45:18 -0700 Jordan Golson 112520 at http://www.thestandard.com