About BuzzTracker

Thank you for checking out our Beta launch of BuzzTracker! We are proud to be launching our new design which we hope makes the site more readable and user friendly. As you may notice we also have a new bee, which after much debate, is friendlier though he may have put on a few pounds.

Our goal has been to launch a news site that leverages the power of the “head of the long tail” of the blogosphere to automatically generate news pages for a multitude of topics, both broad and narrow. We are currently tracking more than 1,000 different topics and 90,000 blogs. In the next month, we will be launching a create-a-topic feature to allow you to create and manage pages that are of the most interest to you. We will also be launching many new features in the coming months. Stay tuned!

On each page of BuzzTracker, you’ll see five content elements. The main content element is called Most Blogged — this analyzes the top blogs to determine the most blogged about story for that particular topic. This element is a great proxy for the “wisdom of the crowds” in terms of what is important for that topic. After the Most Blogged section we feature the Latest News, relevant stories for the topic sorted by recency. We have a search box which allows you to search throughout BuzzTracker to find items that may be of interest; both topic areas and individual posts and articles. Finally, we’ve integrated with both Flickr and YouTube to provide recent pictures and videos that match the topic in question.

We’re going to be continuously adding and tweaking BuzzTracker — we appreciate your patience as we go through this launch period and again thank you for checking it out! Also — please, please send us feedback, thoughts, suggestions etc so we can make this a better product.

We recently sold BuzzTracker to Yahoo! You can read about our announcement here and Yahoo!'s announcement here.

Thanks! And we hope you will become a regular visitor to the site to stay current on All the News the Buzz Approves.