MySpace News is live; poses absolutely no threat to Digg
Maybe I shouldn’t write such predictions when a site with hundreds of millions of users like MySpace is concerned, but I can’t help it; MySpace news, the latest in a series of big RSVC (Read Submit Vote Comment) sites, offers nothing new, looks quite bland, and is miles away from Digg in terms of usability. I honestly don’t see it as making a big impact as far as news go; except maybe for those news directly related to the MySpace community.
First of all, the site, located at address news.myspace.com, awfully uses available screen real estate. On the front page, on a 1280×1024 resolution, I see exactly three news items. Three. Sometimes less is more, but when social news sites are concerned, it’s been tried and tested: users want a lot of easily skimmable content, and they want it right away.
Secondly, the site offers nothing new. You have news, voting buttons, a selection of topics to browse from, and that’s it. Oh yeah, I forgot: a lot of advertisements, too. There’s no upcoming page. There are no different ways to view content. There’s nothing new or interesting here: your average run of the mill Pligg site offers more options.
Lastly, and this is a highly subjective (what isn’t) opinion of mine, but the site looks dead. The overall design, the lack of options and features, it all makes the site look as interesting as a bucket of dirt. Overall, as an additional feature for MySpace, it’s not bad: well, additional features are rarely bad. But as a full-blown competitor to Digg, Reddit, Netscape, and other RSVC biggies, it’s not even close.
April 19th, 2007 at 11:07 am
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April 20th, 2007 at 9:42 am
[…] That’s just about the only compliment I can think of in regards to the recently-launched MySpace News. Web 2.0 features have been reduced to nothing more than “rate this story.” No comments, no bury, no drag and drop, just rating stuff. A Pligg site has more options, same for a Ning - Digg has nothing to fear (sorry, I just wanted to use Pligg, Ning, and Digg in one sentence). […]
May 15th, 2007 at 12:18 am
[…] Sometimes it’s easy to make predictions. Marshall Kirkpatrick and TechCrunch note today that MySpace news is pretty much dead. No one seems to be using the service, and no one seems to care about it, either. […]
June 27th, 2007 at 7:10 am
[…] a) Will MySpace screw it up like they did with MySpace News (which was touted as a Digg killer and it didn’t amount to absolutely anything)? b) Is MySpace’s admittedly huge community willing to build, or do they prefer to link, comment and embed stuff from other places? […]
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