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Yahoo! Buzz to close down on April 21

Abe Olandres Editor-in-chief April 19, 2011 · 1 min read

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Another ones bites the dust — this time it’s Yahoo! Buzz. It’s the 2nd blog-related service that Yahoo! axed this year. The Yahoo! Buzz blog has this short message post a couple of weeks ago.

Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site. This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations.
We appreciate your patronage.

The Yahoo! Buzz Team

Launched by Yahoo! back in August 2008, Buzz was supposed to copy what Digg was really good at — social news and bookmarking. But now that Digg is also slowly dying, Yahoo! Buzz took an early hint.

Last February, Yahoo! also shut down MyBlogLog.

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Abe Olandres

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Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and is considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines.

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36 Comments

weird · 15 years ago

focus on what?

Jonaflormicfren · 15 years ago

If it is for good, we must respect the decisions. It will be worst for them maybe to continue. http://youshudno.blogspot.com/

RJ · 15 years ago

All things, good or bad, must come to an end. Don’t worry Facebook will die too. Sooner or later.

EgyBoi · 15 years ago

this is not a good news for yahoo buzz users =(
I hope they will not close their other service soon.

kyle · 15 years ago

Because there’s no active communities involve in Buzz. Compare it to reddit in which the discussions will make your nose bleed

allan · 15 years ago

i think skype is slowly killing ym. in the office. we all use skype, we rarely use ym or not at all.

florencia · 15 years ago

yeah. i don’t even go to my yahoo messenger anymore.

Jan · 15 years ago

Facebook slashed yahoo silently. Its rare for us friends to chat in yahoo messenger anymore. group chats and announcement are made via facebook.

csseyah · 15 years ago

ano nang nangyayari sa Yahoo.. parang may binubuo silang plano ah! hehehhehe

Faith@ahead · 15 years ago

not only Yahoo! sites, but also MSN/Windows Live/Bing sites are dying down too…

Alfie · 15 years ago

…and don’t forget Geocities!, which Yahoo closed, I think, two years ago.

Calvin · 15 years ago

yahoo meme siguro susunod.

nameless · 15 years ago

Yahoo will be shutting most of its services soon. They aren’t improving anymore.. Their yahoomail and yahoo messaging are too slow and buggy.. They are only popular here in the Philippines nowadays. If people will be given a chance to experience skype’s messaging services, and gmail’s email, i guess they won’t go back to yahoo services anymore.. Yahoo must catch up with their technology for them to stay on the competition.