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[adorno]

MySpace to Enter the News Business

MySpace News: The Digg Killer?

The popular online hangout MySpace is entering the news business with a feature that lets its users determine what items other members see.

MySpace News brings to a much larger audience the user-recommendation capabilities already available through Digg and Time Warner Inc.'s Netscape. It also marks the site's further inroads into becoming an Internet portal akin to Yahoo Inc. and others.

Unlike Digg and Netscape, which rely heavily on user submissions, MySpace will also scan thousands of Web journals and news sites and group results by categories such as sports and politics. MySpace will go further than Google Inc.'s news offering by letting users vote on items, helping to determine what makes the front or section pages.

They're number one in their field and now they're expanding into the news and discussions arena. Google news and Yahoo and Digg might be feeling the heat soon. With a built-in user base way over 100 million, this could turn MySpace into a web portal that rivals the biggest out there, namely Yahoo, MSM and others.

[wbpro]

Great move

[freebase]

MySpace is indeed the world's largest social network...

.. shame it doesn't work half the time. other myspace user's will agree with me here, it's broken all the time, pages randomly don't work, stuff dissappears, it's generally a mess.

I wish they'd just fix the damn thing before going and expanding on something else.

[Kerry Jones]

Originally Posted by freebase

MySpace is indeed the world's largest social network...

.. shame it doesn't work half the time. other myspace user's will agree with me here, it's broken all the time, pages randomly don't work, stuff dissappears, it's generally a mess.

I wish they'd just fix the damn thing before going and expanding on something else.

Its ran off windows what do you expect?

[Kemik]

Myspace is just crappy templates + spam. Digg me