The Guardian reports that Reuters i planning to launch their very own MySpace. The community will only be available to Reuters subscribers, all 70,000 or so of them. In other words, they’ll probably not have any real problems getting the word out there.
“You will see us, later in the year, launch a version of MySpace for the financial services community,” said the chief executive, Tom Glocer. “It won’t have the latest hot videos and the ‘why I am into Metallica and the Arctic Monkeys’ blogs. Instead we are going to give our financial services users the ability to post their research or if they are traders, their trading models.”
No launch date was given, but chances are you’re not welcome anyway.
Originally posted on March 2, 2007 @ 8:23 am
OMG! All my financial are belong to theirspacez!
On a more serious note, this may not be as silly of an idea as it seems. Motley fool have done something similar with their CAPS beta launch and I love it. Although that is more of a ‘wisdom of crowds’ thing than a social networking thing.
In coming days more and more newspapers will be coming to the same arena, and frankly speaking it makes real sense for them to do it as soon as possible.
Though it might be a bit hard to visualize but local newspapers can build small communities over their subscribers very easily than big ones and can benefit hugely from it.