Myspace has become such a dominant player that the launch of Myspace News was a big story in the blogosphere. Ironically you could hardly find it at Myspace and it just took me a few minutes and Pete Cashmore’s Mashable.com links to find the darn thing. I agree with Pete that it currently is not very inspired, but has simply enormous potential to dethrone DIGG as the key hip news site.
Myspace is probably rolling this out slowly so they can manage the new traffic routing and bandwidth issues that will come up. I remember at MIX06 where the Myspace CTO showed some slides indicating CPU usage on their server farm. When they implemented the more efficient (Microsoft?!) architecture the CPU usage dropped dramatically. The key point though was how for a huge site things like power, bandwidth, and CPU use become a big deal with every change.
I remain concerned that most of the news stories that are ranked and generated socially primarily appeal to prurient, adolescent, and technology interests rather than the deep and provocative intellectual stuff you’d get on, say, Charlie Rose. But it’s our free wheeling superficiality that makes America great (or at least makes us more fun than Finland), right?
Joe Duck 
Oh Boy was it hard to find the news section. It is such a busy website, but it is a great connection to our teenagers. I find out more about kids these days on My Space then anywhere else on the web. Thanks for your comment.