A new service released by yahoo recently is something that you might want to look into.  Another social news service, this is the time to jump on board and start building yourself a quality profile.

Just out of beta recently, “Buzz” is comparable to digg, propeller or any of the major social news sites.  I’ve got my blog updated personally with all the new buzz buttons.  I’m sure I’ll make them blend in nicer in the future, but for the time being i’ve used the following settings to get this result:

For Posting Yahoo Buzz Buttons On My Homepage(found in main.index.template for Wordpress Users)

<script type=”text/javascript”>
yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href;
</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”medium-votes”></script>

That’s the script text I used, it will pull the url of your homepage to the submission.

and for the single post page (Found in single.php for Wordpress users)
<script type=”text/javascript”>
yahooBuzzArticleId = window.location.href;
</script>

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”square”></script>

Both those scripts pull the url that the person clicked on the button from to the submission page on yahoo. They have a “Button Page” you can check out for more info as well.  They’ve also got a widget you can use for your blog as well found here.

Recently someone has released a wordpress plugin for Yahoo’s Buzz that is supposed to make it painless, you can find out more info about it over here and realize I have not tried it, so use it at your own risk(it’s got lots of “Buzz” so far so it’s probably pretty good.)

To check out more info and add me as a friend (I’ll Buzz ya!) check out Yahoo’s Buzz - pretty much all you need is a yahoo id and most of us already have one.

UPDATE:  I’m not sure wtf is with the friends or contacts feature on this service.  To be quite honest I don’t really see as much interactivity as Digg on this front ( or any of the other sites that use social news as a platform)  In my opinion, Yahoo needs some work done on making social interaction more fluent for “Buzz”

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