Yoono to launch “Buzz It” ; Makes media sharing easier
By Vivek | April 11th, 2007 at 09:32 am ET
Yoono, the social recommendation engine, today launched a new feature âBuzz Itâ(in private beta) that gives another reason to get the extension on your browser. Yoono âBuzz Itâ combines the ability to search, research, annotate, and share content from webpages with just few clicks. In some ways the “Buzz It” functionality is similar to Del.icio.us toolbar and Grouptivity’s ability to fetch images/video and text from a webpage. In “Buzz It” case, it operates via a browser applet that allows people to clip interesting text, links, images, and video and capture personal notes while surfing, as it relates to their areas of interest. As you keep on collecting notes related to different topics, “Buzz It” adds a new button in the toolbar for each of them. So anytime you want to add more notes to a particular topic, you just come back and hit the related toolbar button. In other words, Yoono puts your “tags” in the toolbar. Haven’t seen anyone doing that.
And just like you would do at Facebook, Yoono pulls in your address book from Yahoo/Gmail/… to make the media notes sharing much easier. Just to add to the complete experience, Yoono remembers your webmail login so that you can get done with sharing faster next time around. As far as accessing your content from elsewhere, Buzz notes are synced with your Yoono account. So you can install the browser toolbar to get going on any machine. Besides that you can always export your Buzz notes to the PC, or make them sharable through RSS, or nothing else you can print them. And if you are one of those who typically clips information web and starts blogging about it, Yoono has got even that part covered by providing the ability to blog about the content on Yoono Buzzblog.
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on April 11th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
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on April 13th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Actually, this new feature is in private Beta, not publicly available yet !
http://blog.yoono.com/blog/?p=66
on April 20th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
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on May 24th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
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on September 11th, 2007 at 12:48 am
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