Exit Yahoo Buzz: vote button screws up our site. Back to stunning StumbleUpon

Written on September 2, 2008 – 11:01 am
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Two weeks ago, I celebrated the launch of Yahoo Buzz, the social media service that would “blow up our servers”. Inspired by a success story of TechCrunch, I switched all Digg’s vote buttons for those of Yahoo’s brand new social news project.

Turns out this was a pretty useless move. Since August 20, StumbleUpon has sent us 4,581 visitors, Digg 1,183, Hacker’s News 679, and Buzz.., well, it brought us 38 visitors.

Ok, so every social media service might need some time to become successful. That’s all good. But it’s not ok that Buzz also asks for some more time to load our page. See this horrifying graphic of how the images on our site load, you don’t want that to happen to your blog:

$Yahoo Buzz images don\'t load$

See that shiny button? It’s our way of saying thank you

So now what? Well, I’ve endorsed StumbleUpon before, as they are the only service that keeps sending new possible readers to our blog. Moreover, it isn’t a service that ignores 158 votes from our readers, like Digg did last week. We’re thankful for that, and therefore decided to give the SU button a more prominent spot. Happy stumbling folks!

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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One comment to “Exit Yahoo Buzz: vote button screws up our site. Back to stunning StumbleUpon”

By Ruben on Sep 6, 2008

I found the move to Yahoo Buzz rather weird from the start. Instead, using something like Sphinn would make more sense.

You’re aware that thenextweb.org is mainly read by nerds like you and me, right? When’s the last time you’ve use any of Yahoo’s portal properties?

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