MySpace will therefore follow the movement initiated by the madness of the social network: Facebook. Recall that last April, the site opened its API, and according to ComputerWorld already nearly 100,000 developers working with the site. These contributors, which symbolize the community spirit of Web 2.0 have already made 6,000 applications.
Taking advantage of a conference which takes place in San Francisco with the theme and the Web 2.0, co-founder and big boss of MySpace Chris DeWolfe, announced an open platform for developers of the site in a few months. He has not given specific date.
"We will create a Sandbox for nearly two million users and beta for our developers. The goal is then to propose these new applications to users of MySpace, "said DeWolfe.
Strengthen community spirit
In a few weeks, MySpace will publish a list of all the widgets available on its network. Remember that these tools allow each user to customize its environment MySpace.
At present, users of these gadgets of the canvas must go to the designer of the application to download the file. But ultimately, MySpace will centralize all those options on one page.
The contributors are owners of all applications, and MySpace plans to help them sell advertising on that page to make it live. Of course it is also a pretty nice way to retain developers.
To support this strategy, MySpace will open offices i
