Yahoo! to shut down Buzz on April 21

At last Yahoo! Buzz has created some, er, buzz. If only because it is shutting down. Yahoo! on Monday told Buzz users that the site service will not be available after April 21.

"Yahoo! Buzz will be discontinued as of April 21, 2011. As of this date, you will be unable to access the Yahoo! Buzz site," a note posted on Yahoo! said. "This was a hard decision. However this will help us focus on our core strengths and new innovations."

Yahoo had launched Buzz in 2008, giving users a community platform where they could share news stories. It was supposed to be a competitor to website like Digg and Reddit. But for some strange reasons, never endeared itself to users.

Yahoo's decision to pull plug on Buzz was first reported in December last year when a confidential slide got leaked on twitter. The same slide claimed that Yahoo would also shut down Delicious, Yahoo Picks and Yahoo Bookmarks. Of these services, Buzz is the first one to close down officially. The slide claimed that shutting down of aforementioned services was necessary for the company to return to profit after 2011.