MySpace opens up to developers
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Belated move to counter Facebook MySpace will open up to third party developers within the next few months.â¦
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Rains down spam, opens door to users accounts A handful of enterprising people - at least one of them a teen - have devised a Javascript that allows its owner to temporarily access the browser's MySpace account, according to a security professional who was among the first to publicly write about the service.â¦
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PC Magazine - MySpace, the wildly popular online teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3 million unsigned bands.
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MySpace, the wildly popular online  teen hangout, said on Friday it will make its first move into  the digital music business by selling songs from nearly 3  million unsigned bands.
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Web sites like Club Penguin have introduced social networking to children. Welcome to MySpace in braces.
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A small step for the budding social network's quest to be the anti-Facebook: Plaxo has opened up a portion of its source code dedicated to helping users manage their various social networking identities.
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MySpace will allow third-party software developers to create applications for the site from next week.
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MySpace will let its users send and receive messages, comment on pictures, post bulletins, update blogs, find friends and update their mood status on cell phones.
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MySpace has an impressive lead today, but things can change quickly in the fluid world of mass-market social networking sites. Just ask Friendster.
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MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessary&#160;tools to build applications for the world&#39;s most popular social-networking site.Developers will have about one month to familiarize themselves with the development tools and create and test applications before MySpace begins letting its members install them early in March.&quot;Developers will be able to build applications, but they&#39;ll be in the sandbox environment where consumers won&#39;t be able to see them,&quot; said Kyle Brinkman, vice president and general manager of Platform for MySpace.With the opening of the developer Web site, MySpace gets closer to&#160;catching up to its main rival, Facebook, which opened its platform to external developers in May.For Facebook, despite some bumps along the way, opening its platform has been overwhelmingly positive. More than 14,000 applications have been created for the site, which in turn has increased its attractiveness to current and potential members.MySpace isn&#39;t alone in following Facebook&#39;s lead, as most major social-networking site operators have decided to open their platforms to external developers as well.In addition to the individual developer platforms,&#160;Google unveiled in November its OpenSocial project, which aims to provide a set of common APIs (application programming interfaces) for social-networking operators to adopt, so that applications built with those APIs will work across multiple sites.To make sure that the applications are safe to use, MySpace will test all of them before making them available to its members, Brinkman said.Developers will be able to generate revenue from their applications by placing advertising on their applications&#39; &quot;canvas&quot; pages, where members manage the applications they install. Developers will get to keep 100 percent of the advertising revenue generated on canvas pages, Brinkman said.Developers can choose to run ads from third-party ad providers as long as the ads conform to MySpace policies, such as not containing pornographic content. Moreover, MySpace will let developers run ads from two new ad services that it is beta testing and that it plans to launch at a later date called HyperTargeting and SelfServe, Brinkman said.In addition to the canvas page, applications will also be featured on their own profile pages, where developers will be able to explain in detail what each application does and how it works. Moreover, there will be a gallery where the applications will be listed. Of course, the applications will also appear on the profiles of members who install them and on members&#39; MySpace home pages.MySpace will make available three types of APIs to developers: Google&#39;s OpenSocial APIs with MySpace extensions for building applications in JavaScript and HTML; ActionScript to build Flash applications; and Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs for applications that require server-to-server connections.Applications will be able to make use of data on MySpace profiles, but they will be governed by existing privacy controls that apply to members.The MySpace Developer Platform site will also include documentation, sample code and discussion forums.Also on Tuesday, MySpace will launch a blog geared toward developers , where MySpace staffers will post relevant information and news about the program.&#160;
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Following Facebook's lead, MySpace will allow outside developers to create applications for its members.
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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MySpace, a website considered the hip place to socialize online, announced it will enable members to sell their music.
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MySpace China gives users the power of instant messaging.
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InfoWorld - Social networking giant MySpace will open its platform to outside application developers,Â a move that was made months ago by its close competitor FacebookÂ and helped boost its popularity.
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Facebook will help other social networking sites to run applications developed for its own software platform, it said Thursday.The company already encourages developers to build applications that work with its site, publishing details of the tags and APIs (application programming interfaces) needed to exchange data.Now it plans to license those details for use by other social networking sites and platforms, according to the Facebook Developers blog . The idea is that developers will only have to write their widget or small application once if there is a common platform for structuring how the applications integrate with sites.The initiative runs in parallel with Google&#39;s OpenSocial project, which revolves around creating standard APIs (application programming interfaces) for social networking applications. APIs let applications exchange information and are crucial to building programs that, for example, take information from Facebook profiles and blend it with some new functionality or feature.Facebook already has a taker. On Wednesday, social networking site Bebo said it would use Facebook&#39;s standards for its own Open Application Platform. Bebo isn&#39;t taking sides, however: it will eventually support Google&#39;s OpenSocial too, it said.MySpace, the largest social networking site, has also said it will support OpenSocial.Facebook said its architectural platform is composed in part of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) related tags and methods for building applications.It published details of FBML , its set of tags for formatting data exchanged between applications and users. Some of the tags enable developers to build programs with the same design elements as Facebook&#39;s site, so the application blends in.External developers have created about 7,000 applications since Facebook opened up its site in June. The applications have offered a commercial opportunity for developers, although Facebook has been under fire for how those programs respect users&#39; privacy.Google&#39;s OpenSocial platform got off the ground last month with Plaxo&#39;s Pulse, the first application to use the APIs. Pulse, which aggregates and delivers new information from social networking and other Web sites, is a feature of Plaxo&#39;s Web-based address book service.&#160;
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It&#039;s only natural for companies large and small to want to capture some of the social-networking magic of MySpace.com, a Web site that has risen out of nowhere to become the Internet&#039;s second busiest by successfully figuring out what teens and young adults want.