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Yesterday Yahoo! announced the launch of new product “Y! Buzz” being open to everyone. I got the mail early this morning (IST) today and I have put this Buzz button on my blog… see below. If you are interested in getting a million traffic a day or more, you should consider adding Buzz buttons to your blog or submit your articles to buzz to get them buzzed up!

This is what Yahoo! says about BUZZ on its corporate blog:

Anything you find on the Web is now buzzable. Any of the Web’s best current event stories, gossip, photos, videos and more can be submitted and shared on Yahoo! Buzz. You’ve already seen the “Buzz Up” buttons on many of your favorite sites, including New York Times, Us Weekly and BoingBoing. Now, as any site is able to add our button, you’ll have even more places to buzz to your heart’s content.

Feel free to add Yahoo! Buzz buttons on your blog/site and get more traffic to your site. Adding buzz buttons is very simple and shortly, I will write a Wordpress plugin to add Buzz buttons for all posts on your WordPress blog.. Watch out this space for more!

Nokia released its new model N96 in India yesterday with high media coverage. There has been a big time comparison of Nokia N96 Vs iPhone 3G. The journalists call the N96 the “iPhone killer”. To figure out more information, I did a bit of search on net and this is what I found.

As you know, N96 is the first ever mobile device to offer a memory size of 16GB expandable to 32 GB through an external micro SD card (Hot Swap Supported!). You could store more than 60 hours of videos and movies with high quality.

You may be amazed at iPhone’s trendy looks and features. But think if you really need to go for one as it doesn’t support Bluetooth(see above). Out of the box you can only use Bluetooth to connect to a hands-free headset, so no A2DP stereo Bluetooth, file transfers or internet sharing. Pictures you take can be emailed to friends, but not sent directly to another mobile device. Similarly, there is no video capture and FM radio. Coming to price, both are priced crazy! On top of this, there will be data subscription charges from the telecom service providers.. Do you really need one of these?

Revolution of FM Radio has come a long way since its inception in mid 2001. Bangalore city started with only a couple of channels by then and now count is more than 10 stations. All these Radio channels are trying to woo the audience by various means. Some of these include contests over SMS. I love fever 104, Radio Mirchi’s Double Dharode, Radio City’s Haadu heli lakshaantara gelli etc., are some of the contests. Modus of operandi of all these channels is the same. Propel the audience to participate in these contests by showing big bucks.

If you were in Bangalore a couple of weeks back, you would have noticed huge hoardings promoting these contests. Looks like these contests started as a chain reaction among these channels. Sure there were a handful of listeners making some easy money a the cost of a huge number of audience who registered for these events by sending SMS’s which are charged at premium rates. Both the radio channels and the Mobile service providers made good profits at the cost of small amount contributions! It would be a good case study subject for management students to learn the radio contests business model.