Microsoft, Yahoo! Buzz In on Google Buzz
Not surprisingly, it didn’t take long for reaction to the announcement of Google Buzz to begin pouring in, particularly from Google’s closest competitors.
Microsoft’s statement on Google Buzz:
Busy people don’t want another social network. What they want is the convenience of aggregation. We’ve done that. Hotmail customers have benefited from Microsoft working with Flickr, Facebook, Twitter, and 75 other partners since 2008.
And a long email from Yahoo!, as reported by TechCrunch:
It’s been almost a year-and-a-half since we first launched Yahoo! Updates — a social feature that lets people share their status, content, and online activities and stay connected to what their friends and family are doing on Yahoo! and across the Web — and we wanted to share the latest on what’s happening with Updates:
There are now more than 200 Yahoo! and third-party sites that feed into Yahoo! Updates — like Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Yelp, and Yahoo! Buzz — allowing people...
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