Posts Tagged with ‘developer-platform’

The MySpace Developer platform, announced last June and expected to have launched much earlier than now, will finally be launched on Tuesday, February 5th according to sources at the company. Beginning today, programmers can pre-register for the MySpace API program
Amit Kapur, who has been promoted to be MySpace's new Chief Operating Officer, will oversee the new platform and has already mentioned that the API will support Google OpenSocial from the start, though few other details have been released. It has [...]

By now, you can pretty much call it a necessity for a social network to offer a platform for developers to create applications for. First was Facebook, and now MySpace, LinkedIn, Hi5, and several others have joined the fray.
Friendster is the latest addition, having announced that it is working on the Friendster Developer Program. This set of APIs will be just like other offerings, allowing developers to build applications that can be inserted into the profiles of Friendster users, [...]

Today, Michael Arrington has suggested at TechCrunch that MySpace's developer platform will launch as soon as next week, most likely coinciding with the Web 2.0 Summit taking place in San Francisco from October 17-19. Not only that, but developers will reportedly have the ability to serve their own advertising within applications and keep 100% of the revenue, much like Facebook!
It was first mentioned that MySpace would introduce a developer platform back in June, when MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe told Financial [...]

With all of the attention that the Facebook Platform has received, the latest rumor about about the new developer platform from social networking site Tagged has to be the most interesting… at least for developers.
Back in June, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman discussed his plans to offer a platform more like Facebook, followed by MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe expressing that ?the [Facebook] platform is interesting,? and announcing that MySpace will become more open to developers. Just yesterday, Hi5 also [...]

The launch of the Facebook Platform led to a massive increase in Facebook's user base, not to mention a slew of applications that developers are hoping will manage to generate some kind of revenue.
Since that launch, several other social networks, such as MySpace, Bebo and LinkedIn, have kept a watchful eye, with some making plans for their own development platforms.
Today, Hi5 looks to be the next social network to follow the example that Facebook has set, with their [...]