MySpace News has launched and they are looking for news sources to include in their index.
You can submit your site or blog to MySpace News via their Feed Submit form.
Using the form, publishers can submit their feed, URL and choose a related news category. We’ve submitted Search Engine Journal and will look for referrals from MySpace News.
Once stories are indexed by the MySpace News Meme-like news tracker, they can be voted upon. For example, this SEJ story on Click Fraud is indexed in MySpace News and has been voted upon 4 times.
Since it has been voted more times than other stories within the Search Technology area, the story is at the top.
Users have to be MySpace members to vote, but MySpace is also tracking votes by user IP or Cookie(my vote is still registered and personalized after logging out of MySpace), so don’t try spamming MySpace News via multiple MySpace accounts.
Given their Digg-like voting platform, I expect MySpace News to become part of many a social media marketing and news distribution mix, in the same fashion as Netscape, NewsVine and ShoutWire.
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Ken Savage on Apr 19, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Interesting enough I could vote unlogged in and logged in.
Loren Baker, Editor on Apr 19, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Funny Ken, according to the FAQ one has to be a MySpace user to vote. Guess they forgot to implement that for day one :)
Bill Hartzer on Apr 19, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Interesting find. I’m not sure if the myspace crowd will really be into reading news, so it will be interesting to see if this takes off.
Rhea Drysdale on Apr 19, 2007 at 1:53 pm
hmmm… possibilities….
Thanks for the post!
Bigrayvin on Apr 20, 2007 at 9:54 pm
It will seem that Myspace it trying to make sure they have all bases covered in marketing to their crowds. It seems like a great service.
DR Massey on May 16, 2008 at 12:49 am
Who can blame Myspace for covering or at least attempting to cover all the bases. Everyone wants a slice of this pie no matter how small.
jay on Jun 20, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Check it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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