Philipp Höhn

Hi everyone,

today I would like to briefly introduce you to a new technology reviewing website that has just been launched yesterday, on the 2nd of November. It is called technobuffalo.com and features mostly user generated content along with some high quality youtube videos of a handful of professional editors. The main idea is to give everyone the opportunity to blog about anything technology related. By posting your reviews, previews, comments or whatever you think the world needs, on technobuffalo.com people browsing the site will happen to stumble across your articles very easily (at least, that is what the website’s creators hope for) and tell you, what they think of it. Through the facebook-like social network of this website users are encouraged to discuss and evaluate each other’s content and thereby achieve good quality content along with decent page viewing statistics. To post to your own customizable blog you just need to register with technobufallo and start editing your very own content.

As mentioned before, this website was just launched yesterday. Now, how did I know of that? Back in April when I was waiting for my 13″ aluminium macbook to be delivered (and believe me, that took a loooooong time!) I was browsing youtube looking for some nice videos about my first apple product (being a passionate linux user this felt like the ultimate level of shame…). I stumbled upon Jon4Lakers youtube channel who made videos of himself unboxing the macbook, reviewing it after one day, one week, two weeks and a lot more cool things you need to see when you are shacking with anticipation Although this Jon Rettinger obviously was an apple enthusiast and therefore presented the products reviewed in a certain light, he still found some decent ways of describing and evaluating new products. Since then I’ve been subscribed to his channel and watched most of his videos. As time went by his videos became more professional (new camera, switched from bedroom to writing desk, better lights, a generally improved presentation) and started to cover new kinds of hardware and software. Some months later he started to have some other guys (e.g. Lasse Pulkinnen – watch the lumberjack review!) posting to his channel which somehow showed that there is a big potential of users being interested in this kind of tech reviewing (they now have more than 50.000 subscribers). Today you can find videos about the newest smart phones, a really great comparison of the XB0×360 and the PS3, coverage of interesting prototypes like the new Vaio X, reviews of Windows 7, a report about one of those great problems with the Dell customer’s service and, of course, just about anything apple related.

Despite the fact that a big part of the content on technobuffalo.com (until now) is produced by mac users, there already is a great variety of content. While I’m still missing some linux coverage I think that this project might be having a great future as it offers a unique combination of a facebook-like social network with user-generated tech-blogs. Let’s see where that goes! By the way, they also offer some very nice giveaways

Thanks for reading.

Tags: internet, technology