MySpace opens to software developers
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MySpace on Tuesday opened its popular social-networking platform to software developers, echoing a move credited with helping Facebook gain ground on its market-leading rival.
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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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MySpace announces it's opening up its platform to developers at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
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MySpace said Tuesday that it has officially launched the beta of its instant messaging client to the public, about a year after it had first released it in a limited beta test.
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MySpace takes personal profile-advertising matchmaking program for a walk.
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News Corp.'s  Internet social  network MySpace said it officially launched the early version  of its instant messaging service, MySpaceIM, which has been  available to some users for about a year.
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MySpace will launch its application development platform next week.
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Social networking site Facebook has just opened up its doors to the web's million-plus web application programmers. At a San Francisco launch event Thursday, the company debuted its new application framework that lets outside developers write programs to run on Facebook's website.
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MySpace next week will begin providing APIs to developers looking to create applications to run on the social networking site.
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Facebook announced yesterday that it is taking the unusual step of allowing the public to develop features for the popular social-networking Web site, permitting any software designer to access the company's millions of members.
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MySpace is about to make it possible for developers to build applications that can run, and make money, on its site.
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A Silicon Valley start-up is  gearing up to embed free, Web-based telephone services on a  variety of popular social networking and blogging services,  including MySpace, Friendster and Blogger.
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The company is looking to reach out to the community of users of its software by building a mailing list of those interested in beta testing software.
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Rains down spam, opens door to users accounts A handful of enterprising people - at least one of them a teen - has 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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MySpace on Wednesday officially launched an instant messaging service customized for users of the teen-oriented social networking website.
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FakeYourSpace.com offers users of MySpace.com a way to enhance their pages by hiring âfriendsâ for money.
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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;