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MySpace launched Development Platform

Published by Rytis Sileika on February 5, 2008 in news and social networks. 10 Comments

Keeping up with the “I post what you post, you post what I post” paradigm, I feel obliged to inform you that MySpace has launched their development platform which is based on OpenSocial API.

As opposed to Facebook, MySpace are going to have two or so month lead in period, so to allow fair play for all developers. Until that moment has passed no application is allowed to have more than ten or so installs.

A little bit worrying comment is this:

As for OpenSocial compatibility, company representatives say that 90% of MySpace’s platform aligns with the OpenSocial specification, meaning that OpenSocial developers will have to do a little bit of reengineering to get their applications to work.

What are the 10% delta we’ll soon to find out. I have to admit that I don’t yet have MySpace account, which is a shame. So first thing on today’s agenda is get myself an account and start playing with the platform.

Social Networks United

Published by Rytis Sileika on November 12, 2007 in news. 0 Comments

Possibly, assuming Facebook accepts this invitation, OpenSocial will unite most of the major players in social networking arena. From the moment Google introduced their OpenSocial platform, where developers can write applications for all participating networks (MySpace is one of them), Facebook was somehow reluctant to join.

Although Facebook is seen as a major competitor for MySpace, there is an opinion that in fact they can co-exist and they are not as similar as they might appear at the first glance.

Being able to develop applications for social networks without worrying about transportability and making them available across the board is a great thing and hopefully Facebook will join Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING on the OpenSocial platform.