[From Hans] Yahoo! Inc., (NASDAQ: YHOO) today introduced Yahoo! Buzz, an extension to Yahoo.com that opens up the Internet’s leading starting point by uncovering the most interesting and relevant content from websites across the Internet and bringing more buzz-worthy stories to the homepage of Yahoo!. Currently in beta, Yahoo! Buzz measures consumer votes and search patterns to identify interesting and timely stories and videos from large news sources as well as niche blogs around the Web. Top stories are then given primary editorial consideration for feature placement on Yahoo.com.
Yahoo! Buzz can highlight anything – a major news event, an intriguing video or image, or an interesting blog post – and instead of editors, real people vote and search for their favorite stories to determine the top rated content from across the Web. Yahoo! Buzz ranks the most popular content of the moment using a unique approach that combines consumer votes with search popularity to give a story a Buzz Score. This new initiative creates a lens on what people are most interested in to enhance relevance on the popular Yahoo.com, and help publishers deliver their best content to Yahoo!’s broad and diverse audience of more than 500 million users.
“Yahoo Buzz is a good example of how we are continuing to innovate and open up our key starting points to third party publishers, making Yahoo! more social and personally relevant for our half a billion consumers,” said Jeff Weiner, executive vice president, Yahoo! Network Division. “In addition, we recently announced that we will be opening up our user interface for Yahoo! Search, as well as creating a smarter inbox by opening up Yahoo! Mail, two other key ways that consumers start with Yahoo!.”
“With Yahoo! Buzz, we are building on the recent success of the homepage of Yahoo! and improving consumers’ favorite online starting point, by combining popular stories with the wisdom of real people to determine what is most engaging and relevant,” said Tapan Bhat, vice president, Front Doors and Network Services, Yahoo!. “Consumer engagement with the Yahoo! homepage has increased nearly 20 percent year-over-year, evidence that continuing to open up and provide consumers with direct links out to third party publishers keeps people coming back to Yahoo! again and again.”
Yahoo! Buzz Brings Publishers’ Content to Internet’s Largest Audience
Yahoo! Buzz builds on an openness initiative Yahoo! launched last year in which editors began highlighting third-party content from across the Web in the “Featured Today” module on Yahoo.com. This effort has already provided tremendous value for consumers and publishers, representing a first step in the creation of a more open system for Web content. “When Yahoo! linked to People.com’s Sexiest Man Alive coverage, referrals from Yahoo! increased by over 11 times versus the average day,” said Fran Hauser, President, People Digital.
“Getting a link on Yahoo!’s Front Page is like connecting to a fire hose,” said Evan Hansen, editor-in-chief, Wired.com. “Thanks to this program, we got more than 2 million page views in less than two hours from a single headline, helping to drive a 1400 percent increase in Yahoo! referral traffic versus the previous month and enabling us to reach a vast audience that may not otherwise see the stories we publish on Wired.com.”
In its beta phase, Yahoo! Buzz includes content from nearly 100 publishers, ranging from large online publishing brands to small, influential blogs, and will grow from there to open up to all publishers interested in having their content included in Yahoo! Buzz. Participating publishers are given an online ‘badge’ enabling their readers to vote and submit stories to Buzz in real-time. Stories with the highest Buzz Scores will be highlighted via direct links to the publishers’ sites from http://buzz.yahoo.com and submitted to Yahoo.com’s editors for possible coverage on the Yahoo! homepage. Additionally, Yahoo! allows users to submit Buzz stories to social news sites including delicious, Digg, Facebook, Propeller, Reddit and Stumbleupon.
New Tools for Publishers and Advertisers
As Yahoo! Buzz evolves, it will form the basis for an open ecosystem of publishers, advertisers and consumers. Yahoo! will develop this ecosystem by building out new syndication and monetization tools that enable publishers to share relevant content, connect to more advertisers and reach a broader audience. For example, a Yahoo! Buzz API will enable publishers to add customized Yahoo! Buzz modules or shortcuts to their sites to showcase their own most buzzed items or other popular stories on relevant topics. Over time, we expect this to extend into a powerful content exchange that connects owners of content with distributors of traffic.
Mark Tamura produces some excellent freeware programs and one of them is a basic but free spell checker, it does things slightly different but is a program I have carried on my Palm devices for some time, it's called 
Backing up your Palm device is essential and since I have had the Centro I have ensured that I continue to back up my device just to be on the safe side and with that in mind check out 
And for those of you with PalmOS devices like myself remember 
If you have a Windows Mobile Treo or smartphone then I suggest that you take a look at Spb Diary it's been recommended to me a number of times recently. "Spb Diary is a feature-rich Today plug-in for your Calendar, Tasks, Contacts, Notes and Messages. It enhances Pocket Outlook by gathering all of your PIM information in one place. With Spb Diary, the Today screen will soon become your favorite since you will need to leave it less and less." Make the jump and if your interested there is a trial 
Remember the Gear Diary website is giving away goodies all this month and there are some great prizes to be had so make sure you make the jump and check out what 
Domino fans here is something for you guys it's LSL Dominoes 3.0 for Palm OS and it looks pretty fun. "Do you like playing Dominoes? Then try playing the classic game LSL Dominoes from Lakshmi Solutions LLC. Now, you can play this classic game in your PDA by yourself or with 3 more players.
Do not waste your time and start playing LSL Dominoes . Also look for LSL BlackJack by Lakshmi Solutions LLC." Quite a lot of features with this one:
Hi, I'm about to get my economist degree but before that i need present my thesis wich is a very deep investigation about a subject concerning about my carrer and i have to tell you that i wouldn't know what to do without my Treo (before that my Tungsten e and LifeDrive).
A couple of University of Glasgow students have built a prototype of a program that brings haptic touchscreen technology to the iPhone. The Gizmodo has all the 
Apple today introduced new models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro. 
Apple today began taking orders for the new 
Apple 
Great to see what Hannah is up to with her Centro. I've been having a relaxing day, chilling listening to some music on Pocket Tunes. I've also been using Chatteremail to catch up on email with friends getting priority in answering. I've also been playing Astraware Solitaire which is a fun game to play, and if you have not tried and tested the game then you should as its fun.
Everybody know how valuable a backup is for your mobile devices, but not all of us know exactly how to do it and what we must do in the process. Usually we realize we’ve missed some important steps when it’s already too late, like what have happened to me few days ago. I abused my Treo 750v with heavy use everyday, if you interested to know you can read it at previous post 
Tonight seems to be a social event for me as a few of my friends, and myself, are meeting to have a few drinks and discuss the weeks events so far and to have a good old gossip!! This will be my opportune moment to show off my new Smart-phone. I'm really excited as i can guarantee that they will be really interested to see how it works and whether this may be the next phone for them. As many of my friends have mobile phones they are very intrigued as to what is new out there that they can look out for to buy.
GIVEAWAY: TODAY ONLY I am giving away a HTC Touch
First and foremost, an open apology to Sammy and all those at PalmAddicts, the software and hardware companies that have forwarded me items for review (most notably Proporta and LobsterTunes -- expect reviews to be posted today and tomorrow) and most importantly, the readers who did not get the reviews that I promised to deliver.
Julie at The Gadgeteer writes about Sena iPhone Cases. "Last month at Macworld Expo I had the opportunity to meet the folks from Sena. After working with them for years, it was nice to finally shake their hands and put faces to the names. When I got back from Macworld, I had a whole gaggle of iPhone cases arrive from them to review. Let's take a look..." 
Ten Apps to a Better Treo or Centro is an interesting read over at the 
A Palm program that I use on my Centro is something called "Always On" I have used it on a number of my Palm devices over the years and the Centro is no exception. A word of warning if you set "Always On" permanently then it is likely to drain your battery. It is free and a almighty useful program. Available from 
Egg Timer is something for free and will be useful I am sure. "Simple Timer with two modes of operation, minute-second or hour-minute, uses system default alarm sound which can be turned on or off. Includes high def graphics." 
This looks pretty cool, the Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC Comes with integrated, detachable Skype phone. "Checkout the new Sungjut TangoX Nano UMPC, which will have a VIA CPU C7-M ULV at 1.2GHz, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, 40 or 80GB HDD, HD Audio, 7" WVGA (800x480) touch screen, 4 in 1 Card reader, Ethernet Port , WiFi a/b/g, USB 2.0 (2 ports), DVI output and a detachable, integrated Skye handset. Do you hear the Eee PC running a little scared? Jump to the gallery for some more tasty images." 