AT&T’s Yelp-Like Social Local Listings Platform Buzz.com Launches To The Public

Buzz.com, AT&T's take on socializing local business listings, has received a considerable amount of press, even though the site has been in private beta. And thanks to sharing a name with Google's recently launched social communications tool, Buzz has received even more attention. Today, Buzz.com is opening up its Yelp-like local recommendations platform to the public. Buzz, which implements Facebook Connect to tap into your social graph, aims to personalize local search, based on the recommendations of people they know and trust. On the site, you can "Heart" your faves and build a personal list of favorites bars, restaurants and businesses. You can also add a Twitter-like comment to any recommended listing.