Will Netvibes become THE highlighting tool?
Written on July 1, 2008 – 12:52 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief
While the Netvibes blog still triumphs the neat integration with Google Search, TechCrunch reports that a new - and more exciting - feature has launched. It’s called Buzz and it adds Digg, Mixx, Reddit and Yahoo - uhm - Buzz to its impressive list of competitors (featuring iGoogle and MyAOL). In case you haven’t noticed yet, there’s a “star” function in Netvibes, with which you can highlight your favorite articles. Buzz will track which articles are starred most - by your friends or everyone - and by doing this, gives a Digg-like overview of the Web 2.0’s most favorite articles.
My first thought was: yet another sharing tool. But then I realized that Netvibes might become an “starring overlay” for all your content, as the little star is depicted in YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, RSS, and almost every other content widget you can come up with. So instead of turning tweets in a Twitter fav, starring articles on Google Reader and appreciating Digg articles by digging them, you just have one tool to manage all your highlight needs.
Before this scenario becomes reailty, Netvibes Buzz has to come a long way. It’s still in development and the numbers on the frontpage aren’t that impressive.
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By Nicki Brøchner on Jul 3, 2008
Well from a small time bloggers point of view I don’t think that Buzz will be that big. Because there are no easy way for random visitors to buzz something. All you can buzz is content that you already are interested in /subscribing to. So if you don’t already have a large user base then the benefits of this service is almost none exciting. And to popular content well, what are the benefits of users sharing content to other users that already are away of that content?
It might be a good way to add an extra filter on popular blogs and news sources but not really useful in discovering something new