We thought we had the trademark on ‘Buzz’ word . Valleywag got some exclusive screenshots of Yahoo Buzz, which is could be Digg’s next competitor. Yahoo Buzz is supposed to be launching beta on the 26^th of February with an initial 100 sites.

Yahoo Buzz’s Top Stories will be updated hourly as seen in the screenshots. The stories will be ranked based on popular search results and user voting. After the beta period, the sites accepted in Yahoo Publisher Network will appear in Buzz which means that if you allow Yahoo to sell ads on your site, Buzz will allow your stories.

Interesting, Yahoo again is trying Google’s game of linking every product with their Ad Network and incentivizing the ecosystem. The question is that with voting button becoming as common as social networks, can they get enough user base to ‘Buzz it’? We had launched our own niche voting on user generated content site- LifeSolved – based on life and productivity solutions & tips. Our thought was that each one of us have been solving problems we face, in our unique way and it is time to share them with the community.