Just as predicted right here, MySpace has followed Facebook in its strategy of opening its platform to third party developers and services.
As the FT reports:
The expected change in approach is a reaction to the success of rival Facebook, which last month unveiled a similar step to open its network to outside developers. Although it has less than half as many users as MySpace in the US, Facebook’s approach has won it strong backing from other consumer internet companies, which hope it will give them an easier way to reach the network’s 27m members.
Openness? Ye gads, it almost sounds like the way the web was meant to be… An essential move for MySpace, though, as I’ve said before.
Questions is, though, just as in LinkedIn‘s case: when they say open, how much do they really mean it?
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