Comments on: Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News

By: MySpace News | SOJo: Student of Online Journalism

MySpace News | SOJo: Student of Online Journalism — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:40:34 +0000

[...] it was no surprise to me when the reports started coming in that their Digg-like news feature flopped. But the front page of MySpace news [...]

By: Two Years Later, MySpace Karaoke Launches

Two Years Later, MySpace Karaoke Launches — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:45:25 +0000

[...] Newroo (March 2006), MySpace sat on the asset for a year and then beta launched MySpace News. It was and remains a bit of a ghost town, with little integration with the main MySpace [...]

By: MySpace News Comes Out Of Beta

MySpace News Comes Out Of Beta — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:41:55 +0000

[...] expected it to become fairly dominant fairly fast. But a month later MySpace News had become a ghost town – there were no internal links to the site and it was being completely ignored by the 100+ million [...]

By: TechCrunch en français » Dernière minute: Newsvine acquis par MSNBC.com

TechCrunch en français » Dernière minute: Newsvine acquis par MSNBC.com — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:52:33 +0000

[...] sites sociaux d’informations après Fox bought Newroo en Mars 2006 pour $7 millions (devenu MySpace News) et Condé Nast, propietaire de Wired, acquis par Reddit en Octobre [...]

By: Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com

Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 23:24:22 +0000

[...] of social news sites to three: Fox bought Newroo in March 2006 for $7 million (it is currently MySpace News) and Condé Nast, owner of Wired, acquired Reddit in October [...]

By: MySpace News Is Stealing Your Search Results

MySpace News Is Stealing Your Search Results — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:15:26 +0000

[...] wondered previously who was going to use MySpace News (if ever), and now we’ve found the traffic source: [...]

By: Don

Don — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:55:04 +0000

I think it’s too early to judge. TechCrunch was useless when it first launched.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 16 May 2007 18:04:44 +0000

Face it guys (and gals) – The myspace platform is for folks (if you are a guy) to get some pussy. Who will go there to get news?

Get real people.

By: william medina

william medina — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:44:35 +0000

If you read anything on myspace – it’s usually done at the “page your visiting”. let’s be real – myspace is more of a play area. Yes you can create a good friends list and do some marketing – but as a news source….it would be hard pressed. My question would be – even if they read articles – would they really vote on them?

By: pallet jack

pallet jack — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:07:23 +0000

if they linked from front page / it would quadruple the traffic from TechCrunch ….

That being said – I’ll never visit.

– When your ads are of “Fart button” and “Good flirt?” – then don’t expect any credibility .. and credibility is “News”

By: Art

Art — Wed, 16 May 2007 00:45:47 +0000

What? MySpace crowd is not a fan of business and politics??

*Pun intended.

By: J-son

J-son — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:21:19 +0000

Most MySpace users aren’t interested in news, other than the vomit that is spewed from Perez Hilton or TMZ.

They should’ve invested their time and money into upgrading MS’s god awful infrastructure, instead.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:14:33 +0000

Can a site enter the deadpool if it was never alive?

By: miguel

miguel — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:14:03 +0000

who bought myspace again? funny.

By: Mukund

Mukund — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:02:05 +0000

even my news website is doing better.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 15 May 2007 18:00:36 +0000

Strange to see myspace trying to replicate a digg or newsvine type news column. what would seem more inline with their demographic, what with the celebs and indie music crowds, would be trying to replicate gossip rags and magazines in some way online.

By: vaspers the grate

vaspers the grate — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:58:52 +0000

MySpace is just a toilet anyway.

By: Motorcycle Guy

Motorcycle Guy — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:46:45 +0000

It probably crashes ever 15 mins just like the rest of myspace.

By: marcovaldo

marcovaldo — Tue, 15 May 2007 17:14:48 +0000

the reason why the site had to do a “soft launch” was because fox legal had not gotten any of the image content approved by the go-live date.

this was an unforeseen disaster, and they have all been paying for it.

it’s not so easy for a company that directly competes with reuters and AP to try to license photo content for the same stories, apparently.

the site was, sadly, entirely graphic-driven before this issue arose.

By: Blurt Reynolds

Blurt Reynolds — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:35:13 +0000

MySpace users can read? When the hell did this happen?

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 15 May 2007 16:06:05 +0000

MySpace does this with every product.

They launch it, let people discover it, then they start slowly linking things up to it. The traffic goes from 0 to massive the second they do. If past history is any guide, I’d say 3-4 weeks from now they start to promote it. My bet is they’re waiting till they have some more features.

Like Kevin Burton said, if they get ever a small percentage of MySpace users talking, it will be the biggest social news site by far.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:38:25 +0000

MySpace hasn’t linked to or promoted the service yet. So it’s remarkable there’s any traffic at all. From what I understand, the Newroo guys are still in testing.

Once MySpace starts linking and promoting, I imagine Newroo will start showing some serious numbers.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:27:25 +0000

I agree, the ease of use is almost, if not completely non-existant. But as Kevin Burton stated, all MySpace needs is to gety a small percentage of people using it, and a large chunk of the the MySpace population will jump on the bandwagon. I just going to to stick with Digg.

By: STFU

STFU — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:22:34 +0000

I don’t think that myspace appeals to the same audience as digg. It’s like trying to pass gun control laws through a republican dominated senate.

Of course Newscorp wants control of all markets, and even though they have control of the #1 money making web 2, that does not mean they can leverage that to dominate all markets.

By: Marshall Kirkpatrick

Marshall Kirkpatrick — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:16:23 +0000

Thanks for reading my tweets, Mike. That’s pretty cool.