MySpace News is expected to be launching today, at news.myspace.com. At first glance, the news system seems like a hybrid of Yahoo News and Digg, ranking news in different categories and letting users vote upon news stories. Expect Google, MySpace’s search partner, to supply news search.
The social news service was planned to be launched at 7 am EST, according to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, but it looks like MySpace is a bit behind schedule. The system is built using Newroo technology, a firm Fox Interactive acquired last year.
Arrington of TechCrunch has previewed the MySpace News platform and exposes the following:
- MySpace news will pull news items from a number of trusted sources via their RSS feeds.
- The news items will be organized into 25 main categories and 300 sub-categories.
- The order of the news items will be determined by user voting and freshness.
- Users can vote on each item of news with a ranking of 1-5.
- Higher ranked and higher voted items will appear at the top of each category.
Screenshots available at MySpace News Launches Thursday
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Dan on Apr 19, 2007 at 10:54 am
Do MySpace users read the news? ;-)
and how does Rubert Murdoch fit into this…
Loren Baker, Editor on Apr 19, 2007 at 10:56 am
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp owns MySpace, so expect lots of stories from Fox News, Fox Sports and New York Post to make it to the MySpace News front page.
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