On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com. Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST.
The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million. Newroo had interesting technology, but were acquired prior to launch.
I spoke to Newroo founders (and current Myspace/Fox employees) Brian Norgard and Dan Gould, as well as Fox Interactive Labs head Dan Strauss, this evening about the new property. Like Google news, MySpace news will pull news items from a number of trusted sources via their RSS feeds. The news items will then be organized into 25 main categories and 300 sub-categories including sports, politics, style, and technology. The order of the news items will be determined by user voting, taking into account the freshness of the news. 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.
Down the road we can probably expect users to be able to submit news items directly.
Screen shots below.
Woohoo! Congrats to Dan and Brian for finally getting this shipped — big time.
They should do something different, they know to much about their users for not making a personalized news section.
Why are they launching it on Thursday?
It does not make sense?
They must have pushed up the launch date because of the Virginia Tech News Coverage.
Persumably, it would have launched in a few week later - on a Monday morning - if past history can serve as an example
i heard that they are releasing a Pop-To-Populapolious section too where you can do all kinds of wierd stuff with tools cms and such.
Been looking out for this - out go by Google News feeds, in come MySpace ones. Hurray for user ratings -
Brian and Dan, congratulations. Happy to see this finally go.
Congratulations Dan, Dan, Mita and Brian!
The service sounds similar to a mix of google news and newsvine. I wonder if there is still room for yet another digg style submission service like they plan for future release.
Congratulations to Dan and Brian. It will be a very interesting feature in MySpace.
They need to focus on gossip, music, movies, and the like. I really don’t see the target group looking for political or tech news on MySpace when there are others sites catering to them specifically.
What does “exclusive” suppose to mean in the headline?
Or best said, is there any difference if you are the first and only to tell us this?
Don’t mean to bother, I love this blog, but really don’t get the “exclusivity” obsession. Let the newspapers battle for that.
yeah really, exlusive just burns me for some reason.
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yeah, and soon we’ll be seeing a social network from CBS and another one from NYTimes.com
This is gonna be so cool!
I bet however lame and boring it is, it’s gonna be a big hit thanks to Myspace’s enormous community.
Healthy competitor for Digg - News.
http://www.suggestusability.com
Sorry to put a downer on this, and I know you break a lot of good stuff, but how is this exclusive? I read it on Reuters at lunchtime my time (+8 GMT) here. Their time to press (least according to their site) was 5:56am Thursday BST, which would put it at 9:56pm Wednesday US PST. Not sure what time this post went live, but first comment at TC is at 11:16pm PST.. over an hour later…and knowing how quickly people love to comment here, I’d suggest the post wasn’t far behind the first comment.
Some solace though, you write a much better piece than Reuters
The site is looking very cool right now
http://i172.photobucket.com/al.....yspace.gif
You mean 7:00 AM EDT, right?
Looking forward to see how this plays out
Exclusive for you Michael: My opinioin
Do we need yet another news site in Web 2.0 ? Is that collaboration or opposite ?
I believe this is the first hint for Web 3.0 in the story / tale of Web 2.0.
As we know, Web 2.0 ist better then 1.0, since information becomes directable, selectable, collaboratable.
But as Amazon does not well sell used stuff, as ebay does,
or Ebay Express does not well sell new stuff, as Amazon does,
both of them would not well sell cars…..
Everything is either limited or useless (note to myself: take Microsoft out of this equation)
So why Myspace diggs out news, or Digg might responding with creation of “spaces” …
… this is illusive, not exclusive.
Gosh you can always rely on MySpace to pick the most awkward color schemes for their site designs.
-Zaid
Wow!
MySpace will get new features. And yes I agree, they should try and personalize it.
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Once you’re a platform like MySpace you can take a crap in a box, put a shiny “news” sticker on it, and it will still be a contender. What are the chances they put some filters in there with their patented “Fox News” spin?
That being said, congrats to the Newroo fallas.
So, you have to have a Myspace account to view it, it’s asking me to login. That sucks.
Hello I am the 65% of people that work and get my news from the Web….do you think I will use Myspace.com as a news source? If you do, you are drinking the koolaid too.
No shit idiots you’re on the damn site! lolz digg me down… oh wait myspace users don’t know what digg is XD 10 buxX says an article on the best razorblades on the market will make it here.
Wow this is so cool, btw its live
Have to agree with some of these opinions on such matters as A) does my 14, and even my 21 year old, sister really care that MySpace now has a “news property, B) most of my news usually arrives to me via Digg, TechMeMe, and of course TechCrunch via my Google homepage, C) though now live, for what like 4 hours, the current 1st frontpage story has a whopping 10votes(?). So much for the built in audience, D) Definite congrats to the Newsroo guys.
Let’s hope that MySpace news “rankings” and placement are more serious and relevant to the real world concerns than Digg’s daily presentations.
Yea it was up on Mashable pretty quickly also.
I like the direction MySpace is trying to go, but I agree, the bulk of their community probably doesn’t care much for news. Maybe they can focus on sports, celebrity, etc. - that would probably do well.
I just always by default go to google news. it gives me what I need, no need to move to something else. I like it and headline news and that’s about it.
Damn. I am really impressed. The service is clean and easy to navigate & use. Great job!
Service does look clean. Unfortunately, what I dont get is the voting UI. They have the rating or star system like netflix and underneath it they display the # of votes.
Unfortunately, it is not intuitive that one has to click on the “dude icons” in order to say whether you liked it or not!! Since when does clicking on 4 “dude-like” icons mean I Really like it. Looks like the picked the icons from their logo and probably didnt want to copy Netflix’ style.
Hmmm…Stories aren’t getting many votes yet.
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