Thoughts about MySpace News: Social Networking meets Digg, but not quite

Have you guys seen Myspace News?

http://news.myspace.com/

I’ve started to see these news pages show up in Google searches alongside Digg and Netscape pages. You can browse through the “hot” news articles in whichever category you pick and then vote on how cool it really is (there are gradients here beyond just “like it” or “not”).

It’s too bad that you can’t submit stories, though. Or at least I can’t figure out how, which amounts to more or less the same thing.

On the other hand, though, do we need another social news aggregator? Netscape works because there’s a meta-level that really sets it apart from Digg (and they have a slightly different audience). But what extra value do you really get from tying it in to a social network? Would it matter if a Facebook app provided this functionality? Would you switch from Digg?

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