Comments on: Rojo Launches Nooz for Myspace

By: Nick Dynice

Nick Dynice — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:39:45 +0000

If MySpace does not “web 2.0″ themselves (yeah, they have blogs with RSS), I guess others will do it for them.

By: Poe

Poe — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:48:41 +0000

bagus: i’m pretty sure they’re just hitting/parsing the page.

By: bagus

bagus — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 17:39:03 +0000

Hey.. anyone know how Nooz and singlestat.us are grabbing data out of myspace since there is no API? Is it all scrapes from the website? Or do they have a partnership in place?

By: Pete Cashmore

Pete Cashmore — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:51:55 +0000

Didn’t this launch a while back? I was testing it in May:

http://mashable.com/2006/05/12/nooz-digg-myspace/

By: Billy Warhol

Billy Warhol — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:32:31 +0000

this is really putting the pressure on me to get my Google AdSense MySpace AdWidget out the door!! Time is of the essence here! ;)) Should i be First to Market or 2nd??

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:32:38 +0000

Yeah, I’m having Safari issues with the Swicki thing. Working on it.

By: Simran

Simran — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:30:04 +0000

Hehehe… thanks.

By: Simran

Simran — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:29:31 +0000

Hahaha… Lee, I’m a 12-24er and I don’t sit digging and blogging all day. Just for about an hour in the evening or morning. My RSS reader saves all the top stories and I glance, read and digg what interests me. It’s a fun addition to the news.

I haven’t used Swiki, but I did notice that it isn’t displaying properly here on TechCrunch (the box). Just incase it’s fine on other peoples’ machines, I’m using Safari on OS X.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:27:46 +0000

Simran, LOL, dugg.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:24:30 +0000

It somewhat reminded me of swicki with the community aspect, but without auto-tagging and voting aspect - i think Wink does this voting stuff too among many other new companies. I don’t think it’s competitive at all really; apples and oranges. It’s just useless for me because I work 20 hour days (in the valley) and don’t have time like the 12 - 24 year old crowd has to vote or digg all day on their blogger friends stories (unless they are top 100 bloggers that live for this stuff).

By: Simran

Simran — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:13:08 +0000

I don’t know, but this product seems rather dry to me. All it does is display what I’m reading on my MySpace page. It might work for the MySpace die-hards, but I like Rojo a whole lot more. I don’t see how it’s a geek product (Rojo), being that you’re offered your new feeds and recommendations as soon as you sign up. Geeks have their feeds ready and usually like a bare reader to fill up and customise.

It’s pretty clear that MySpace has turned into this unstoppable juggernaut, creating an industry around itself. And now that it’s become so huge, that there’s really no way it can completely collapse or get unpopular in a short period of time, because “the cool guys” think it’s lame. It’s the same with Microsoft and Windows. Mac OS X is far superior, but cannot quickly take over the market. I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad thing that we’re starting to see companies make money off the MySpace crowd. It’s phenomenon and one I don’t understand. It’s good in that more opportunities to make money are created, but bad because a collapse at the centre would destroy the entire ecosystem.

You can digg this story here.

By: Michael Arrington

Michael Arrington — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:11:14 +0000

Lee, How is Nooz similar to/competitive with Eurekster Swicki? They are completely different services.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 08:04:00 +0000

This sort of reminds me of Eurekster’s swicki - http://www.swicki.com - but with a little more effort involved - the voting and digging. I don’t have time for that unless a friend of mine forces me to digg/vote a story for them. Down the road I feel this is going to raise voting and digging validity issues for “top” and “front page” news stories on sites like Digg for example. I use Eurekster’s swicki because it recs stories and searches for me in real time on my site, with no digging or voting needed from the community/user. For example, when I use e-Messenger.net, it points to the hottest stories and keywords from my buddy list and community. But I can see the value on this widget which allow a no-privacy function so you can see among your friends who recs what story… (I guess I just like privacy )