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
