The big blogosphere news of the day is that MySpace has released a Digg-like application called MySpace News. I'm gonna have to agree with Pete Cashmore and say it Kinda Sucks!
The bad...
- Most of the categories are empty with no votes. But this will change.
- It works by framing other websites. I thought that idea died in the 90s. I can see a lot of javascript frame pop-out code in the near future.
- No comments?
- No RSS feeds?
- Overall lameness.
- You cannot submit stories.
- This is a URL ranking system and has no-where near the feature set of Digg.
The good...
- Lots of categories.
- An army of existing users could make this popular very quickly.
Around the blogosphere...
- Betaflow reminds us that this was newroo. That's odd. Newroo is at least a year old and this looks like someone wrote it in their basement last weekend ;-)
- Darren Rowse has specific instructions on adding your blog(s).
- Adario Strange of Wired says "The service is best described as Google News meets Digg."
- Stan Schroeder says "poses absolutely no threat to Digg."
- zakkforchilli writes "This is horrible."
I think there's concensus that this isn't impressive.
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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 03:27:59 GMT
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