MySpace Goes into the News Business
MySpace Users Will Dictate the News by Voting
Now, you can also get your news on MySpace.
The most popular social networking platform on the web is looking to corner the news market by launching a news service that will feature automatic aggregation and a voting system, not unlike Digg, that will allow MySpace users to vote on their favorite news articles.
According to Variety, MySpace News will combine headlines from various outlets in varying topics. 25 separate topics, in fact. Once the stories go live on the site, MySpace users will then be able to vote for their favorite stories. As they vote, the most popular news stories according to users' votes will become the front page of the MySpace news site.
This new service further accentuates a survey released by Accenture on Monday that stated that user generated news content was the biggest threat to major media and entertainment corporations. While the content will still be developed by major news outlets, the users of MySpace will be the deciding factor as to what is seen and what isn't - a thought that certainly has some media outlets worried about the future of their programming.
In August of 2006, MySpace hit the 100 million user mark, easily making it the most popular social networking site on the internet. Currently, the number of profiles on MySpace stands at over 172 million.
The question is: what will the users of MySpace deem as appropriate and popular news? For now, this is a question that can only be answered once the service goes live on Thursday.
Perhaps net denizens will be hearing more about Britney Spears this week, after all.
SOURCE: Variety: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963381.html?categoryid=1009&cs=1&nid=2562
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Post a CommentWow, Myspace finally got some brain cells. Informative!
Well this is real news!