I found that Yahoo had a Buzz service, and it's been around a least for two years:<p>http://buzz.yahoo.com/<p>HN first report: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=124473<p>Didn't they say anything about when Google launched the same name service?<p>ps: off course there are other buzzes out there:<p>http://www.buzzthegame.com/<p>http://buzz.com/