Facebook plans to launch a new News Platform

by deep on July 16th, 2011 1

Google News’s step towards gaming is afoot. With thriving and active community of 10 million google+ users, google+ is more than just an experimental community. This is making tech game more interesting than  ever. Google’s determination to bring more value to users cannot be ignored through its collection of apps and news resources. Facebook on the other hand, already has 700 million users but the challenge is now to hold on to this crowd and keep adding interesting services to the site.

As a result, Forbes just reported that Facebook is planning to launch a new platform specific for news. This is not surprising because, news is the most shared content on every social networking platform. Not to mention that Google, just released its gamified  version of news edition, with badges and points.

According to the news, Facebook is partnering with news publishers to create an optimized facebook app which will create different experience of consuming news.

A Facebook spokeswoman says, “We have nothing new to announce. The top media sites around the world are integrated with Facebook and we’re constantly talking to our partners about ways to improve these integrations.”

About a dozen news outlets are currently participating, including CNN, the Washington Post and The Daily, according to sources familiar with the project. The first Facebook editions are expected to arrive later this year, perhaps in September. The New York Times was also asked to participate, according to one source, but opted to hold back for now, apparently because of reservations over how having a Facebook edition might fit into its new paywall strategy. (It’s for similar reasons that the Times isn’t even giving all of its content to the digital news aggregation service Ongo even though it’s a financial partner in the startup.)

Source : forbes

This is certainly interesting and a correct move because news is fundamentally the major reason why most of us log on to the internet every day. This could even encourage other segments of population to adopt the networking channels. But by the end, of 2011, we could certainly see a tremendous shift in the way, we look at the internet.

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