MySpace launches Digg-style news service

Posted by Lindsay Berrigan on April 19, 2007 at 4:39 PM
Later today, MySpace will launch MySpace News, a service which will aggregate and organize news content from the Internet, then allow users to rank stories based on relevance and interest level.

 
MySpace News uses a search algorithm to scan online newspapers and magazines as well as blogs and other sites. It then organizes stories into categories including politics, sports, and technology.

Placement of items on the site will be dictated users, who can rate stories on a scale of “loved it” to “hated it.” This will decide what stories appear on the front page and the order of all stories’ appearances. The format echoes that of Digg, a US-based news aggregator.

"MySpace News is designed to let users decide what's most relevant to them," said MySpace president Tom Anderson. "We're putting it to the community to be the editorial engine driving our news service."

Source: The Age

Posted in : Web 2.0

2 Comments

karen said:

Myspace news is so bad I am amazed that they let it go live. Best news sites on the web are still www.congoo.com and www.news.google.com

April 19, 2007 8:20 PM
Dick Dugger said:

ATTN: Ms Celia Dugger

I would like to have correspondence regarding your article, April 7 and of work I am involed with in East Africa. My work iis directed towards the concern of hunger, malnutrition and those infected of HIV/AIDS. Attention is directed toward introduction of selected seeds that increase the protrein value and nutrition of maize and for providing a diet toward developing health improvement.

My major effort has been directed to the regions of Zimbabwe and in Uganda.

Thank you, Dick Dugger

April 23, 2007 5:58 PM

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