Yeah, I think we need a better phrase than killer. But the mainstream users outnumber the Digg geeks by a mile: if they implement this well, it could be a major force in newsmaking.
Josh
· 2 years ago
Calling Fox a 'news company' is really kind of stretching it. ;)
MySpace Video has done pretty well against YouTube. But... I'm not sure there's much of a crossover between the demographic that uses Digg and the one that uses MySpace (and/or, where there is crossover, those are tech-savvy MySpace users who will likely stick with Digg). So I'm leaning toward thinking one really won't affect the other.
austguy
· 2 years ago
This does have potential to make the Digg format more mainstream, but I think topic specific clones like greendope.com may be more how the format will look in the future.
Pete Cashmore
· 2 years ago
Josh,
Ha! Yeah, MySpace News will surely be fair and balanced.
Tend to agree that MySpace News could never be as big as MySpace Video. In fact, MySpace News could completely fail to engage the target demographic if they just make it a Digg clone. If, however, they link to it from MySpace profiles effectively, then at least some of the traffic will convert to users.
ginblossom
· 2 years ago
myspace is unfrienly gossip blog will likely be blocked.
Noel
· 2 years ago
MySpace is No. 1 right now. It will be the same with this news feature, no doubt about it. This is a no-brainer.
Pete
· 2 years ago
Noel,
Yeah, they have the traffic to make most things work. But this doesn't seem like the perfect match for the myspace demographic: like I say, focus on tabloid stuff and it could be a winner.
Heather Hopkins
· 2 years ago
Pete, My hunch is that MySpace will not be the Digg.com killer because the interests of the users vary so much. Digg.com is strong on technology. MySpace is strong on celebrities, music, dating.
Looking at Hitwise clickstream data, last week 14% of downstream UK traffic from MySpace went to websites in our Entertainment category (video sharing and games), 8% to Lifestyle (dating mostly), 5% to Music, 4% to Retail, 2% to Business & Finance and 1% to News and Media.
In the end, MySpace News might pose a real threat for the attention of gamers and video sharing interests of many Digg members.
It's not really about news tho!
DV
· 2 years ago
Myspace is not the first to do this either: I think DigitalJournal.com was the first in the user-driven news/voting site(but they also share revenue with users), and USA Today now allows the same thing. Just because Myspace is huge doesn't mean they are going to clean up.
The only thing that will kill Digg is Digg itself.
shawntae
· 2 years ago
you'll need to get a computer at your house and get off dis lame shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mark S
· 2 years ago
Blah, I think it's dangerous to try to become everything to everyone. What's next - MySpace finance?
madmat01
· 2 years ago
Don't forget who owns myspace?????
rich
· 2 years ago
I think Myspace is on the wane. The fad has tipped and is quickly falling out of favor. In a few years time Myspace will be what AOL is today, a one mighty dot com reduced to a hollow shell.
mat&t
· 2 years ago
MySpace News will be an amazingly well designed, perfectly deployed piece of web software, able to make social, all news information distribution and interaction, easy, and available to all.
Then, all the most ignorant, unappealing, disinterested, and desensitized, still, otherwise-worthless members of digital society will have a place to talk about the equally worthless content targeted for their demographic.
Yay!
THEFUCKINGMAN
· 2 years ago
MYSPACE BLOWS
Shane
· 2 years ago
Specialization! Myspace is a social networking site, not a news site. This new feature may generate interest in a wider audience, other than Myspace's adolescent crowd (both physical and mental age). However, the vast majority of Myspace users will overlook the news aspect as they probably are not interested in world, national, or even local news.
sarah
· 2 years ago
i love digg and will probably start reading myspace news too, just to check it out and see what it's like. will it meet my expectations of myspace news, etc. also, my circle of myspace people (myspace dot com/strunny = me) aren't the normal younger gossip-feeding crowd. i'm on there mostly just to network... but if the news is reflective of stars' lives, surface-y stuff...i prob won't get much in to it.
sadcox
· 2 years ago
Two major factors will hold MySpace back...
1) It's not seen as a tool, but a time-waster by employers. The smart ones are already blocking it.
2) MySpace is played out. It has the image of a place where "I" can go and read about "me"--over and over again. Digg is a legitimate tool.
stefan
· 2 years ago
Who's on MySpace? Socially inept teenagers.
blah
· 2 years ago
Dig is already dead
drwho
· 2 years ago
buh bye pos digg
stu
· 2 years ago
the "socially inept teenagers" of myspace are still far more intelligent and free thinking than the bunch of brainless monkeys that inhabit digg.com so i think it has a fairly good chance of suceeding.
David Leonhardt
· 2 years ago
It could be interesting to see how the MySpace News aggregator would fair against Digg. It certainly won't kill Digg, as the audience, the topics and the sense of "wild west" will be different than it is on Digg.
A more appropriate headline to this story might be MySpace News: The Void Filler?
Michael
· 2 years ago
"Digg Killer" = SEO
Click my name to see another example of bending the rules for a bit of SEO.
SuperGreg
· 2 years ago
Give me a break! Digg fan boys who digg the same stories about iPod/Apple, Linux, bashing religions and praising Atheism with few videos of "Amazing" and "Hilarity Ensues" things think MySpace can't stand before Digg.
JOHN
· 2 years ago
i'd hate to say it... myspace has power. I'd hate to see the end of Digg, espeically to Myspace. They have the potential to do it but I could only hope it would be usless celebrity gossip stuff.
AdBrite Clone Script
· 2 years ago
This without doubt has potential, i'll be interested to see how this works out.
-- Phil
Ricardo
· 2 years ago
Myspace's website architectural design is Web 1.0 methodology. Their news feeder will probably be dhtml at best, not AJAX or new evolutionary Web 2.0 technology. The presentation and delivery of news it's major important for people to appreciate, and the current myspace website has too many hurdrels to conquer to take over Digg's readers. Myspace servers are always running into errors, the site is slow and lets not mention filled with junk advertisements.
I prefer a clear textual news site like Diggs which is able to give me what I want when I want it.
Pete Aaronson
· 2 years ago
uggh...I use myspace for keeping in touch with my friends, I wouldn't use it to get news. I'd rather use CavengerNews.com, it's a lot better.
Jen was here
· 2 years ago
Myspace will be gone and so will digg...nothing lasts, things get too spammy and end up goin bye bye they are just fads
Brad
· 2 years ago
For one thing, MySpace was never built to be a news aggregator, it was built to be the "new age" way of sending spam to users. If they want to integrate a news aggregator, they'll have to severely alter the way the profiles work and, in general, the overall object of the site. All they want is attention and the only way they're going to get that attention is through existing users, it won't bring any new attention other than the curious couple thousand that want to try it, then point and laugh at MySpace for trying.
gary parsons
· 2 years ago
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gary parsons
· 2 years ago
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ShuffleBlog
· 2 years ago
MySpace News Launches Today :)
Gaith
· 2 years ago
well with what poeple has said if the link news to profiles once the users log in they will make it work bc myspace has 130 + million users digg has 1 million, so if only 5 % of myspace users digg into myspace news now they have 5 million diggers! growing faster than digg. and will have such quality news reporting, i saw the new site looks ugly but with lots of channels to see, that match every interest. i hat myspace, facebook is much better, and i like digg. but i am planning to bring to the world the best of all of them.
bellini
· 2 years ago
MySpace News ? Hmmm... Cool
KE KE_BAD_AZZ
· 2 years ago
what up this ya gurl ke ke and i got something special for the sexy boys.
KE KE_BAD_AZZ
· 2 years ago
what up this ya gurl keke and i got something for all you sexy boys.
Duane
· 2 years ago
The myspace beta version appears to have at least one advantage over digg in that it breaks down the information into more catagories making it more user friendly.
dan
· 2 years ago
and the pervs too (forgot about them)
J5
· 1 year ago
Being that it is MySpace, the only news stories they'll probably show will to do with celebrities.
Enzo
· 1 year ago
I'm starting to use Subbmitt.com now instead of Digg & Reddit.
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MySpace Video has done pretty well against YouTube. But... I'm not sure there's much of a crossover between the demographic that uses Digg and the one that uses MySpace (and/or, where there is crossover, those are tech-savvy MySpace users who will likely stick with Digg). So I'm leaning toward thinking one really won't affect the other.
Ha! Yeah, MySpace News will surely be fair and balanced.
Tend to agree that MySpace News could never be as big as MySpace Video. In fact, MySpace News could completely fail to engage the target demographic if they just make it a Digg clone. If, however, they link to it from MySpace profiles effectively, then at least some of the traffic will convert to users.
Yeah, they have the traffic to make most things work. But this doesn't seem like the perfect match for the myspace demographic: like I say, focus on tabloid stuff and it could be a winner.
Looking at Hitwise clickstream data, last week 14% of downstream UK traffic from MySpace went to websites in our Entertainment category (video sharing and games), 8% to Lifestyle (dating mostly), 5% to Music, 4% to Retail, 2% to Business & Finance and 1% to News and Media.
In the end, MySpace News might pose a real threat for the attention of gamers and video sharing interests of many Digg members.
It's not really about news tho!
The only thing that will kill Digg is Digg itself.
Then, all the most ignorant, unappealing, disinterested, and desensitized, still, otherwise-worthless members of digital society will have a place to talk about the equally worthless content targeted for their demographic.
Yay!
1) It's not seen as a tool, but a time-waster by employers. The smart ones are already blocking it.
2) MySpace is played out. It has the image of a place where "I" can go and read about "me"--over and over again. Digg is a legitimate tool.
A more appropriate headline to this story might be MySpace News: The Void Filler?
Click my name to see another example of bending the rules for a bit of SEO.
-- Phil
I prefer a clear textual news site like Diggs which is able to give me what I want when I want it.
growing faster than digg.
and will have such quality news reporting, i saw the new site looks ugly but with lots of channels to see, that match every interest.
i hat myspace, facebook is much better, and i like digg. but i am planning to bring to the world the best of all of them.