MySpace is where all the news is

24 April, 2007

News is where the action is. Like many other company, MySpace too seems to have realized it, of late.

A report has revealed that the News Corp-owned MySpace is making its foray into the news business. And that’s is not all. The foray will see MySpace adding a new feature with user-recommendation capabilities on this front. Elaborating on this, the report added that the MySpace feature will allow users to determine what makes popular news items and what people typically want to view. The new feature is currently under beta testing and uses technology developed by Newroo.

For this, MySpace is bringing in the best from Digg and Netscape, it added. Accordingly, the user-recommendation capability is already available through Digg and Netscape. This will make MySpace capable of scanning thousands of web journals, news sites, and group results on the basis of different categories such as sports and politics, apart from user submissions, it added. Among the other unique features will be the feature which will allow users vote on items. This, in turn, will help the company determine should be on the home and section pages, the report said quoting sources.

Another review of the MySpace news foray plan said that the company will allow publishers exclude their items from the site. Besides, it would also help drive traffic to other news sites, driving MySpace readers to these sites.