Telephone company AT&T has launched a nice blog aggregator (called Buzz) that collects the most popular stories from blogs across different categories such as Technology, Sports, Gossip, etc.
While you are reading a story on Buzz, you also get to see reactions from other blogs on the same story which I think is really useful.
And if you are doing something else like checking email or reading another site, Buzz has a 3D avatar that can read the current story for you in the background. Not bad either.
Buzz.com may be no substitute for our favorite Techmeme but still a site worth checking out. And I have now clue how they pick blogs for including in their index.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/buzz-blog-aggregator-tech-read-stories/2634/
Tags: feature, news aggregator, techmeme, Blogging, Internet
Reader Comments
What a name! Good catch though, Amit.
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick on 03.19.08
I guess the word ‘buzz’ is really a buzz in internet and blogosphere…good info..
Written by maheshexp on 03.19.08
Site looks very slow…. digg, buzz.yahoo, Buzz, techmeme, newspond, friendfeed…. are there any more ??
Written by Kevin on 03.19.08
The first thing about your post that caught my eye was AT&T. Quite a while ago I found an AT&T page where you could type in some words and have one of several different voices (male and female, British accent) read what you wrote. I actually used it to record some voice mail announcements, and I was impressed at the quality as compared to Microsoft’s.
The voice synthesis isn’t perfect, but it’s a couple of steps above Microsoft’s.
BTW, this is my first time on your site and I’ve already bookmarked it and the feed. I discovered it via a link on the FeedDemon site.
Good work!
Cheers
Written by TR Daggett on 03.20.08