Social networking portal MySpace.com is getting into the news aggregation business as its new MySpace News feature offers users the ability to “rate” stories and control which ones get top billing. MySpace News differs from other news aggregators that allow user ranking primarily because it organizes the thousands of news items it finds into 25 main categories and 300 subcategories. The search algorithm scans thousands of Web sites, blogs, newspapers and magazine sites and displays news items with a headline and short summary, MySpace says.
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MySpace Users Decide What News Is Fit to Print
Posted by: Fred J. Aun April 19, 2007 11:00 AMSocial networking portal MySpace.com is getting into the news aggregation business as its new MySpace News feature offers users the ability to “rate” stories and control which ones get top billing. MySpace News differs from other news aggregators that allow user ranking primarily because it organizes the thousands of news items it finds into 25 main categories and 300 subcategories. The search algorithm scans thousands of Web sites, blogs, newspapers and magazine sites and displays news items with a headline and short summary, MySpace says.