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.
A lot of Yahoo! services are closing lately.
Twitter: KennyPV
says:
First MyBlogLog and now YahooBuzz. They’re probably focusing on yahoomail-fb-twitter integration.
It seems that Yahoo isn’t “trending” anymore.
Watch them go to bankruptcy very soon.
Twitter: cherylgolangco
says:
I hope they don’t close down delicious as well. I just started getting the hang of it! haha
there are too many sites doing the same thing yahoo buzz does. i wonder where the social bookmarking thing is heading.
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.
yahoo meme siguro susunod.
…and don’t forget Geocities!, which Yahoo closed, I think, two years ago.
not only Yahoo! sites, but also MSN/Windows Live/Bing sites are dying down too…
Twitter: goodfilipino
says:
ano nang nangyayari sa Yahoo.. parang may binubuo silang plano ah! hehehhehe
Facebook slashed yahoo silently. Its rare for us friends to chat in yahoo messenger anymore. group chats and announcement are made via facebook.
Twitter: mstejadilla
says:
yeah. i don’t even go to my yahoo messenger anymore.
i think skype is slowly killing ym. in the office. we all use skype, we rarely use ym or not at all.
Twitter: technokyletwit
says:
Because there’s no active communities involve in Buzz. Compare it to reddit in which the discussions will make your nose bleed
this is not a good news for yahoo buzz users =(
I hope they will not close their other service soon.
All things, good or bad, must come to an end. Don’t worry Facebook will die too. Sooner or later.
Twitter: daniojr
says:
If it is for good, we must respect the decisions. It will be worst for them maybe to continue. http://youshudno.blogspot.com/
focus on what?