MySpace News launch expected
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 19 April 2007 at 15:38
Tags: Digg, Google, MySpace
As long rumoured, MySpace will launch a news aggregation service today.
The service will include an automatic news crawl that will automatically add links to outside news sources to the service, a practice that has prompted legal challenges from news organisations in various countries against Google.
In addition, MySpace News will offer users the opportunity to rank these news stories, a feature pioneered by social news aggregators like Digg and Netscape.
Technology blog TechCrunch has published screenshots of the service.
The service is based on the the news aggregator startup NewRoo, which was recently acquired by MySpace parent Fox Interactive.
