I guess these big corporations just don’t get it.  Yahoo had something good going back in 2000, but now not so much.  Yahoo Buzz is essentially a Digg clone, but it lacks one essential thing.  Digg’s backbone is the community. They are constantly getting user input, and doing things to make the community aspect of the site better and better.  Yahoo unfortunately failed to realize this, which is why Yahoo Buzz is a huge failure.

This article with both Digg and Buzz buttons embedded shows it best.  The article about Windows XP’s support by Microsoft getting extended by 6 months was posted by tgdaily.com. The article had a total of 2040 diggs on Digg and 8 votes on Yahoo Buzz.  Not to mention if you look at the most dugg articles on Digg, they usually have thousands of diggs.  I’ve seen articles get in the tens of thousands of diggs.  Buzz’s top articles by vote at the time of writing included an article with 750 votes, and the next highest had 180.  It’s like comparing a PeeWee Football team to the Patriots.

Maybe next time Yahoo decides to leverage their large user base and copy another site to try to improve themselves, they should consider why exactly that other site is successful in the first place.

No not the movie, but here is a site with snapshots of offices from different companies out there, including a lot of tech/web companies. Really interesting to see how much more luxurious the more successful company’s offices are compared to some of the newer startups.
Office Snapshots