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MySpace recently launched a new news aggregator service called MySpace News which looks to be a mashup of Google News and Digg combining both algorithms and user rating features.

The feature list, via Terry Heaton:

*MySpace News takes News to a whole new level by dynamically aggregating real-time news and blogs from top sites around the Web
*Creates focused, topical news pages that users can interact and engage with throughout their day
*MySpace is making the news social, allowing users to:
-Rate and comment on every news item that comes through the system
-Submit stories they think are cool and even author pieces from their MySpace blog
* MySpace users previously had to leave the site to find comprehensive news, gossip, sporting news, etc. With MySpace News, we bring the news to them!

Mashable thinks that this could result in a boom for celebrity blogs since most of MySpace demographic prefers such news just as Digg’s users adore Apple, Google and Digg.

However, all things apart, this could be an excellent opportunity for bloggers like you and me to bring in MySpace traffic. MySpace gives you a form page to submit your Blog or WebSite

You can submit your blog here

All you are asked is your Blog’s RSS feed, the URL of your Blog and a broad category under which your Blog falls. Their FAQ doesn’t really outline what requirements your blog needs to meet to be included in the index other than that it should be topical, that it should publish regularly, that it has a a core audience and that other news sources link to the site.

WARNING: If you are using Opera to submit your blog information, MySpace does not like it and you might see an error that looks something like this below. You need to go use Internet Explorer to submit your blog again to MySpace News. I did not try this submission using Firefox or Flock. Post in the comments if this works for you and you used either Firefox or Flock for your blog submission.

via: Problogger

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