So Myspace News, the social network's attempt to get its users to vote on news headlines, is a ghost town, much as Techcrunch notes. Most of the news stories have ten votes, or fewer, compared with the hundreds or thousands that are needed to propel a story to the top of Digg, the pioneering social news site. It's an easy story: the more powerful the property, the more everybody else enjoys a misstep. Valleywag's as guilty, of kneejerk schadenfreude, as any other news site. But it's often premature. The News Corporation social network is not yet promoting its news service on its front page, or members' profile pages. Myspace News is a standalone site, for the moment. And, even properties as huge as Myspace or Facebook have to work to draw users into new services. Facebook's Marketplace classifieds, launched on Friday, are still thin: I've only had one reply to an ad I posted up for a projector. But it's way too early to write off either new service.

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