myspace developer program talk at barcamp3 brighton
DESCRIPTION
Talk given by Chris Thorpe and Mitch McAlister at Barcamp in Brighton on September 6th 2008, obviously without the fun Father Ted "pet brick" segment from YouTube illustrating the lifespan of lots of social network apps.TRANSCRIPT
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
