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MySpace to Open Platform to Developers

Posted Jan 30, 08 1:00 PM CST in Business,  Technology 

(Newser) – Following the lead of rival Facebook, social networking giant MySpace will launch the MySpace Developer Platform next week, giving programmers deeper access to its site--possibly including the ability to tap into MySpace user data, AP reports. MySpace already informally allows programmers to develop widgets for it, and hopes the new platform will help developers make more money through the site.

MySpace also hopes to avoid the kind of woes Facebook has run into with its popular but embattled Scrabulous application, with company officials hinting that they will have rules to prevent such disputes - in the case of Scrabulous, over copyright. Despite the formal launch, programmers will not yet be able to integrate their tools with the site; that will come at a later, yet-unnamed date.

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News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who owns the social networking Web site MySpace, speaks at the company's Global Energy Initiative in this May 9, 2007, file photo. The parents of Megan Meier, a Missouri...   (Associated Press)
An image advertising MySpace.com is seen projected on a screen during NewsCorp's Global Energy Initiative in New York in this May 9, 2007 file photo. MySpace has reached an agreement with more than 45...   (Associated Press)
Demo of a MySpace webpage using OpenSocial, a programming model developed by Google (Graphic   (Associated Press)
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