MySpace is planning on launching MySpace News in the second quarter of this year, a new service that will combine the news aggregation of Google News with the community rating system of Digg.
Will this be a strong competitor to Digg, or will MySpace News provide content for a sperate demographic? After all, I'm sure the MySpace population won't go crazy over the same Apple/HDR Photo/Self-referential/Consumer advocacy stuff that Digg does. One would expect the content to be much less tech-based and more pop culture centric. It should be interesting to see how this affects the online media scene and if Digg sees a drop in users.
Mashable.com [via Digg, of course]












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alright while thats all fine and dandy. what about all the working folk that use myspace and have jobs during the "9-5" who's work network wont allow them onto a myspace domain?
i know i goto Digg quite abit during my daily grind. but the network will slaughter anything myspace. and the main viewing of "pop/media/entertainment" stuff would be from 3pm and later. which really is after everything is done and said. and how many teenyboppers want to sit and read long articles?
long live Digg! and Giz
Myspace + Digg; I didn't think anything could get worse then digg.
@matsayz: "and how many teenyboppers want to sit and read long articles?"
You think Diggers read the articles?
My first thought when i read the headline was "how about they fix their crappy website? Myspace has some of the worst downtime I've ever seen. And I rarely even go to it.
I would imagine that a myspace digg clone would be horrible. You're taking the dumbest of the dumb web user, and you're telling them to run a website....it's would be like the worst digg submissions, but only the worst of them.
It'll be interesting to see if their news service mentions anything bad about Fox TV, Sky TV, 20th Century Fox, The Times or The Sun newspapers or any of squillion or businesses News International owns.
It's quite interesting to see how much self-censorship the British Murdoch-owned press operate, and how much advertising-disguised-as-news they publish.
Won't affect Digg at all. Different Demograph. Plus who still uses myspace with facebook around?
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