Still more and more popular MySpace expands their services: MySpace’s news service, dubbed MySpace News, aggregates articles much like Google News does, and, in Digg-like fashion, lets users vote to rank the stories. MySpace News relies on technology the company added to its arsenal when parent company News Corp. acquired Newroo last year. News Corp. also owns Fox News and several other outlets. The new service hopes to attract more advertisers to the site by mimicking popular aggregation giants such as Google News and by keeping its more than 100 million users on the site longer. MySpace used a little different approach though: The site will aggregate the news through online publications and blogs, group the results into categories — such as sports, fashion, and technology — and let users vote on the items to determine which ones are ranked highest.

The company said it would like to have news in nearly all topics and will list them by category, by alphabetical order, and by popularity. MySpace also is making room for its users to drill down into subcategories where they can gossip about celebs and other matters. Readers do not have to sign up with MySpace to read the news, but cannot vote without membership. Some have speculated that MySpace News would favor its parent company’s offerings, but the site’s FAQ page insists otherwise. MySpace said it will collect the best pieces according to factors such as topical sources, publishing schedules, core audiences, and referring links. Well, this only confirms the importance of Digg, which was copied numerous times and it almost always lead to a big success. And no, I still don’t have a MySpace profile.

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