TechCrunch is reporting that MySpace News will launch in a few hours. My thoughts on this are pretty much the same as when I first heard about it a little over a month ago – does anyone who frequents MySpace really want to go there to vote on news stories?

What we have here is another Digg-clone…this one just happens to have a built-in user base of 100 million or so.

We hear the term “Digg-killer” being thrown around with every new social news launch, but I will say that this one deserves some discussion simply because MySpace is so big. Even just a tiny percentage of MySpace users start using the new service (which is my guess as to what will happen), you’ve got a few million people interacting… Digg, by contrast just signed up it 1 millionth user (and the legitimacy of that number has been called into question).

In the end it’ll probably come down to the fact that Digg serves one purpose – people visit the site just to vote on and read stories – while MySpace has a lot of things going on. It might be a novelty at first and every once in a while it could be nice to not have to leave a site to get your news, but there are undoubtedly going to be other sites out there that do it better.

You should be able to check MySpace News out here when it goes live (right now it’s password protected).