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Months after Facebook opened its doors to third-party developers and effectively claimed a near majority of headline space for a good portion of the year because of it, MySpace’s CEO Chris DeWolfe and his overlord, Rupert Murdoch, stood upon the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit to announce their company’s own intentions to do the very same.
MySpace plans to make an official debut when it’s finished polishing its new platform, a point it will reach in “a couple of months.”
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We all knew it was coming. Facebook did it. LinkedIn say they’ll do it. It seems only fitting that MySpace follows in line and gives third-party developers access to its insides. Not yet. But eventually, yes.
It’s no surprise that MySpace is going the way of “open”. The reasoning behind the move is no mystery either. Simply put, if MySpace is to stave off the steady exodus of people from its pages to Facebook and yet smaller social networks, [...]