BuzzStream

So we’ve been grinding pretty hard here at BuzzStream for quite a while…long, long hours spent talking to customers, following the market and, most of all, building the product.  We’ve had a relatively small group of people using the product over the last couple of months, and the response has been very positive, but you never totally know how it’s going to go until you open it up to a larger group.  So leading up to our launch, we’ve been excited, but also a bit nervous.  Well today is the day where we start seeing how people respond…this morning we opened up the beta (still private, but much larger), launched our website and started showing the product to a set of bloggers.  This morning felt a little like the first day at a new school, but so far, so good.  Here’s a sample of some of the responses we’ve seen on twitter so far:

From Eric Ward,who Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land described as “THE authority on links”…

From Robert Scoble…

and from Virginia Nussey at Bruce Clay, Inc and Kate Morris at New Edge Media

Virginia also wrote a post on the Bruce Clay blog titled, “BuzzStream – Link Building at its Best.”

To get this kind of an initial response from people who are as highly thought of is very gratifying.  These are people that we have a ton of respect for and who we’ve learned a lot from.  If we can build a product that they’re excited about, we think we’ll be in very good shape.  But there’s still a lot of work to do, so we’ll enjoy it for a day and then get back to work tomorrow.

Kate’’s tweet alluded to the fact that we’ve got a number of additional capabilities coming in short order in the product.  I’ll follow-up later this week with more information about our plans.

If you’re interested in joining the private beta, you can request an invite from our website.  If you’ve already requested one and you haven’t received an invite code yet, please bear with us…we received many more requests than we expected. You should get it soon.

One last thing.  If you’re in Austin for PubCon, don’t forget to stop by the BuzzStream party at Molotov.