The MySpace developer platform has launched with a new website and more details about the how you can integrate your application with the erstwhile king of social networking sites.
The MySpace developer platform is currently in a "sandbox" stage, which means that users won't get to play with anything until next month when the platform will become public. In the mean time interested parties can pour over the documentation and see what's possible with the new tools.
As noted last week, when pre-registration began, MySpace's Platform supports Google's Open Social project and the adds MySpace-specific functionality on top of that. Applications will have access to user data like your profile, photos, videos, groups, mood, comments and more.
The platform uses REST for method calls and applications running on the new platform will obey existing privacy controls. That means, for instance, that if your photos are visible only to your friends then any application accessing those photos will also only be visible to friends.
Given that MySpace has had a less than friendly relationship with developers in the past — often shutting down outside applications without warning — the new platform is obviously hoping to repair that relationship. Whether or not it will work remains to be seen, but certainly the tie-in with Open Social will help since it means that MySpace applications can be easily moved to LinkedIn, Ning or any other site that supports Open Social.
There's little doubt that developers will flock to the new MySpace platform, the real question is, are users interested in finding the MySpace equivalent of the “Super Wall”?
[via The Guardian]
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