{"id":1203,"date":"2007-04-19T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/19\/myspace-news-yourspace-news\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T15:27:53","slug":"myspace-news-yourspace-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/04\/19\/myspace-news-yourspace-news\/","title":{"rendered":"MySpace News, YourSpace news"},"content":{"rendered":"

As reported by several sources, including Reuters<\/a> and Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch<\/a> (where the notion of an “exclusive” gets some debate in the comments section), MySpace has launched its widely-rumoured Digg-alicious news service, although Mike said that it would go live at 7 a.m. and all I get is a login prompt when I go there<\/a>. Was the site not quite ready for prime-time perhaps? (Update<\/strong> at 12:05 EST — it is now live).<\/p>\n

snipshot_e4n7gpvxl18.jpgIn any case, this new service from the geniuses at Fox Interactive Media (which owns MySpace and is a unit of Rupert Murdoch’s media and entertainment behemoth News Corp.) was reported to be coming in March, according to<\/a> Terry Heaton’s PoMo blog. The service will pull in news from RSS feeds — although News Corp. says it will not<\/a> favour its own services and newspapers — and users can also submit stories, and then vote on them. Apparently news services will be able to opt out and not have their articles displayed, according to News Corp.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that most people who go to such “user-generated” media sites don’t actually submit or perhaps even vote on stories, as Seamus McCauley discusses here<\/a> (based on a new Hitwise survey<\/a>), I still think this kind of thing could turn out to be very powerful, and that MySpace is smart to do it. MG Siegler at Parislemon says he is skeptical<\/a>, and Seamus says that it is a missed opportunity<\/a>, while The Last Podcast says it is just plain bad<\/a>. Eric Berlin says MySpace missed the boat<\/a> and should be focusing on getting user-generated content from its members.<\/p>\n

The questions in my mind are these: What happens to Jason Calacanis’s Digg-ified Netscape<\/a>? Or to Digg itself for that matter, which has been trying to branch out into non-tech news but without much success (as far as I can tell)? With 100 million members, MySpace has more than 100 times the audience that Digg does. Better yet, how long until Google News decides to add a user voting system? Now that would be fascinating. <\/p>\n

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As reported by several sources, including Reuters and Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch (where the notion of an “exclusive” gets some debate in the comments section), MySpace has launched its widely-rumoured Digg-alicious news service, although Mike said that it would go live at 7 a.m. and all I get is a login prompt when I go there. … <\/p>\n

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