Yahoo Buzz Vs Digg ? Not really! It can be Yahoo YPN Vs Google Adsense!

Yahoo! finally released Yahoo! Buzz a digg like voting site which is making quite a stir around blogosphere. Almost every big or small blog is covering about it. Reason! Yahoo Buzz allows users to vote up and vote down the stories and the stories which win the heart of people will get the privilege of being on Yahoo’s main homepage!

Well, that’s quite a deal as in a test conducted about the amount of traffic a site can get, Wired.com got near about 2 million unique hits in 2 hrs.!

Most of the tech enthusiasts wrote that it will be a good competition between Digg and Yahoo Buzz, however Muhammad Saleem gave wonderful insight that how Yahoo Buzz! will be used as a tool to fight against Google Adsense.

Yahoo Buzz is open for select publishers while it’s in beta and will only accept those publishers who run YPN ads. Well, I’m sure that in order to taste this kind of traffic thousands of publishers will move away to YPN just like that!

If given an option (although, I can’t run YPN as I’m not in U.S., which is ridiculous) I’ll move to YPN and will apply for Yahoo Buzz!

So, not only Yahoo Buzz can be a great resource of getting humongous amount of traffic for publishers, it’ll be great way of promoting YPN service for Yahoo.

Apart from that Yahoo! Buzz has been called as a little less social and I also believe in it. The points due to which it’s called little less social are :

1. It doesn’t support comments.
2. It doesn’t allow any user to submit stories.
3. It’s limited to select publishers only and in that too only those who run YPN will be allowed in future.

However, there are some social features in it too :

1. It allows you to save and share the stories amongst various other social sites, like Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us etc.
2. It allows users to promote or demote the stories.

Here are few suggestions for Yahoo!, although, I’m sure these words are falling in no body’s ears but still just in case :

1. Open YPN for publishers across the globe and select them on the basis of the traffic. If I get traffic from U.S. then it makes sense for me to be part of the network, isn’t it ?

2. Allow users to comment on the stories, not only that generates the free content (Yahoo! answers and lot other services of yours are based on that only) it builds the sense of community too.

Well, the first suggestion is to help them fight with Google and believe me they’ll get a huge spike in their network and that’s for their own good. Second suggestion is clear in itself.

Will you move to YPN if given an option of joining Yahoo! Buzz ? And as far as Yahoo! Buzz Vs Digg is concerned, I don’t think there is any competition in between them anyway and my take says that if Yahoo! plays little cleverly (in simple words, follows my suggestion) then Digg may have tough times too (although, Yahoo! will not be worried about Digg at all).