It was just a month ago when I received an email from Yahoo! Buzz announcing it will soon accept submitted stories from anyone.  Today, I got an email from them announcing that it’s now for real.

Launched last February of this year, Buzz was initially limited to a number of invited publishers who can post articles in Buzz and benefit from a tremendous surge in traffic when it gets pushed to Yahoo!’s home page.  Now, just about anyone who publishes something online can benefit from this.

After my previous post about the importance of social media, the difficulty of average users from leveraging popular social news sites like Digg and Reddit, and the good news of emerging social media sites, Yahoo! Buzz opening up is like another cool breeze to all of us who are on the lookout for ways to bring traffic to our blogs and get more exposure for our content.  Of course, it’s not a guarantee that Buzz will bring a surge of traffic to your site (although technically it can), it’s just good to know that there are more alternative social news sites for us to choose from.