MySpace News goes live
MySpace News has now gone live.Built on technology developed by Newroo (which News Corp. acquired last year), MySpace news combines the aggregation functionality of Google News, with user voting similar to Digg.
From London's Times newspaper (owned by News Corp.):
MySpace is going into the news business with a service that will scour the internet for news stories and let users vote on which ones receive the most exposure.
This approach blends elements of Google News and sites such as Digg and Netscape, which rely on readers to submit stories and determine their prominence.
They have said MySpace News won't favor News Corp-owned content, and, according to the site's FAQs page .
Also from the Times:
It also marks the site’s ambitions to become a web portal like Yahoo!, providing its users with a front door to the internet.
Soon MySpace will be one among the complete portals like Google, Yahoo providing everything under one roof…this is real competition starting up !!… Anyway the users are at a high gain , more the competition , more the benefit to the user !! …Yep !
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