MySpace Apps Go Live
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Written By Drupad Sil | April 24, 2008 | Share This
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Big news for about 120 million people today as MySpace has moved its Application Gallery out of beta. The gallery had been in beta since last March, with over 1,000 applications approved and added to the gallery and more than 2.1 million application installs across the site since then. More from Josh Catone at ReadWriteWeb:
“Every application on the MySpace platform will receive its own profile, similar to musical artists, which will allow developers to communicate directly with their core audience – those who have ‘friended’ the app. Facebook has started down this road by encouraging app reviews and more recently letting users become ‘fans’ of apps, but applications really need to set up separate ‘Pages’ to get the same functionality that MySpace will bake in.”
So, is this a big deal? Facebook Apps have been a staple of that network’s environment for a while now. Well, one major point is that MySpace can show that it has learned how to better engage its user base from Facebook’s mistakes. From Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb:
“…after a few months the Facebook platform has been a let down for many people who were besides themselves with enthusiasm over it at launch. Will app spam become an issue at MySpace the way it has at Facebook? Facebook has lost a lot of user good-will over app spam, something they are focused heavily on changing. My Space has largle killed the messaging spam that plagued its user experience for so long, I don’t imagine users will be happy to see something like it back again.”
The interface is simple and browsing for appropriate applications is a snap, so no doubt we’ll see MySpace users pick these widgets up quickly. Hopefully they’ll stay spam free.
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