Comments on: Netbuzz South African news aggregator

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:23:15 +0000

I think it’s cool. I’ve been a muti whore lately, read almost every single article which gets listed on their, but I think to broaden my field of reading might be a good idea.

Charl.. I got a pretty damn cool idea for the site, I’ll try find you on MSN.

By: charl

charl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:20:50 +0000

Great points Miguel, will definatley consider when we further develope the site

As Chris mention the site is still very early stages

Were not going to slap a ‘beta’ or ‘alpha’ label on it because its not really a serious project for us.. We saw popurls, thought it was pretty cool, my netbuzz domain was lying around and thought it would be a cool idea to do but with SA feeds.

I still use my reader as well (;

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:40:50 +0000

I agree, a bookmark this sign is definitely required! I did one for newsatm and realise that I should have made it bigger, will do that this evening.

It’s very hard to get people to move from what they are comfortable with to something like this, that’s very true.

The engaging factor is critical, but remember, Net Buzz is still in its very early stages, I’m sure we will see tons of development still happening :)

By: Miguel dos Santos

Miguel dos Santos — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:54:14 +0000

I suppose it’s cool for people who are new to the web to have all their news in one place and perhaps mark it at their homepage, in which case I would put a big “Make this My Homepage” button somewhere easily visible. But for anyone with some web savvy, I think they, like me, would rather stick to a personalised start page like iGoogle, Netvibes, Pageflakes, or even just their rss reader. And I don’t think people are getting any less web savvy, so for NetBuzz to do well I think it needs to get more personally engaging and rewarding.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:29:41 +0000

haaai…. NO.. i hav eh masta card!

By: charl

charl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:45:49 +0000

@Mike – I wouldnt say the site is for repeat content, but your first stop in the morning to view whats new on all the top web desitinations in SA

Besides, we built in the site in two days.. its not a serious project

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:19:54 +0000

Ye, and I know that some of the big news stations are giving Google a hard time for syndicating content, etc.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:17:44 +0000

Will be interesting to see if this works, repeat content is generally a no-no in terms of traffic without a fat marketing budget

By: Chris M

Chris M — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 12:14:33 +0000

Not a problem, credit where credit it due :)

By: charl

charl — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:39:54 +0000

Thanks for the review bud, well crit’d