MySpace platform goes live, with issues, developers staying optimistic
Yesterday, MySpace started showing off its new gallery of third-party applications that users can now start adding to their profiles and to their MySpace home pages. This gallery is the most recent of many ponderous steps that MySpace has taken in its quest to copy Facebook’s formative and market-leading developer platform.
Now, the hard part starts for MySpace: Improving the platform while it is live, keeping both users and developers happy.
I’ve been talking with a number… Continue Reading
Q&A with Blake Commagere: Top Facebook app developer sizes up OpenSocial
Blake Commagere is a top third-party developer on Facebook, having built or worked with others to build popular applications like Causes, Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves and Slayers (he also works with startup Mogad, which is developing a sort of news feed site).
Commagere is the type of developer Google and its OpenSocial partners want working with them on their OpenSocial project. The project aims to let a single application work across multiple social networks.
We chatted with Commagere… Continue Reading
Mogad gets half a million to build a better recommendation site
Mogad is the latest startup building a peer-recommendation web service, similar to Facebook’s “news feed” feature.
Unlike Facebook’s closed system, however, Mogad wants to be a “news feed” for the whole web, that can give you recommendations from anything they do. For example, if you’re purchasing a book, Mogad will show you what books your friends are most interested in.
This field is a daunting one, because it’s filled with players. Plaxo’s social network, Pulse, Forbes’ newly-purchased… Continue Reading