myspace developer program talk at barcamp3 brighton

Developing on the MySpace Developer Platform

Chris Thorpe (Developer Platform Evangelist)Mitch McAlister (Head of Product)

Why develop for MySpace?

• Great media savvy audience with high engagement

• A good platform for truly social apps

• Applications that add value to user experience

• Based on Social Graph

• Viral methods invoked by user actually wanting to share app

• Viral spread through “popular” profile exposure

What is the MDP?

• OpenSocial 0.7 with MySpace extensions

• Music, photos, films and “heroes” information

• DataStore

• An entire development environment, no need for a 3rd party server unless you want one

• JavaScript and APIs

The different views• Profile View

• “View Relationship”

• Canvas View• “Tag a Relationship”

• “Looking Out”

• “Looking In”

• Home View• Updates for “Looking Out” or “Looking In”

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DataAvailability

• MySpace profile data shared with other sites to provide for richer profiles on those sites where the creation your identity is centrally controlled

• Ebay, Twitter, Yahoo

Best of class apps

• We haven’t seen anything yet from the UK developers we feel is best of class...

• We want to work with you to help you create these apps

Where to go for help?

• http://developer.myspace.com

• http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial

• http://twitter.com/ukmdp

• irc://chat.freenode.net #myspacedev

Where to go for help?

• Chris - cthorpe@myspace.com

• Mitch - mmcalister@myspace.com