Web 2.0 copycats: Google stumbles, MySpace digs

Yahoo checked out Google’s ecommerce play Tuesday, Google stumbled upon a roll of the dice Web site recommendation tool yesterday and MySpace digs social news aggregation and voting today. Where is the innovation? Is Web 2.0 one big copycat playground now?What is MySpace News? News Corp. does not even make it sound extraordinarily compelling: MySpace News aggregates news from around the web and provides MySpace users with the ability to vote on what they think is most interesting.Just what Tom Anderson’s friends were clamoring for! How are the MySpacers adapting? Page one “Top News” is “Fishing for Fellatio,” deemed “didn’t like it,” following 18 votes. The MySpace News link which supposedly leads to a news story, ...