MySpace News Launched in Beta

The 'Web 2.0' cliche is that everything must be launched as a beta and MySpace News is no different. The reason, that I think, is because there are probably going to be errors and the developers can just point at the 'Beta' name and say, "I told you it wasn't done." So, what's the point? There is none, other than announcing that MySpace News is now on the scene.

Q: What is MySpace News?
MySpace News aggregates news from around the web and provides MySpace users with the ability to vote on what they think is most interesting.

Yes, that means that MySpace News will be Digg style, which means it will be a target for spammers and corruption. The difference is that apparently the news is not submitted by users, rather it's culled from an existing pot of submitted RSS feeds and news resources. Therefore all content will be monitored before it even hits the browse page.

Below is a cute little ribbon they offer to news sites elite enough to be included in their index(No, ObsceneCaffeine.com is not one of them. -David):

What makes MySpace News different is the ability to browse for local news. Most major cities are located in the navigation bar, where popular news from that geo location is displayed. Different, yes, life saving, perhaps. Personally, if I had billions of dollars to throw at a project, it'd be a little more not-beta and a lot more unique.