MySpace to further open site to outside developers

posted by John Lampard on Friday, 1 February, 2008 to the comment subset

MySpace to further open site to outside developers.

It seems struggling social network MySpace has determined that allowing the development of applications, which are all the rage (or mostly all the rage) at arch rival Facebook, is the way to boost its flagging fortunes.

By creating a formal developers’ program, MySpace plans to give programmers “deeper access” to the site and the ability to “build richer applications as part of it,” said Amit Kapur, 26, named yesterday as MySpace’s chief operating officer.

I’ve also noticed aps appearing on Friendster recently. The days of application free social networks are behind us now…

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