Introduction

Myspace is an international social networking site that offers email, forum, communities, videos and weblog space.

The MySpace Developer Platform (MDP) allows developers to create applications that interact with MySpace members and their social graph.

With MDP a developer will be able to create compelling new products that integrate directly into MySpace pages and get exposure to potentially millions of people around the world.

What is The MySpace Developers platform?

The MySpace Developer Platform is a combination of services that provides third party application developers hooks into MySpace's data and functionality.

First steps: Open Social on the MDP

What is Open Social?

OpenSocial is a JavaScript Application Programming Interface (API) built in collaboration with Google and several other social networking sites. OpenSocial sits between the application code and the MySpace Developer Platform. You call into OpenSocial, and OpenSocial in turn calls into the MySpace Developer Platform.

How do OpenSocial and the MDP fit together?

OpenSocial and the MySpace Developer Platform are a series of JavaScript and server-side components that work together to provide the developer with a standard interface to write applications against.

When you run your application, you'll see that it's hosted in an IFrame. If you view the source around your code, you'll see a reference first to "opensocialreference.js", then to "MyOpenSpace.js". You should study these files carefully, for they contain the meat of the OpenSocial implementation, as well as MySpace's extensions on it.

External Links

• MySpace
• MySpace Developers
• Open Social Project
• OpenSocial API Spec. v0.7
• OpenSocial API Spec. v0.8

Navigation

• Introduction
• Create Application
• Creative Elements
• Code Snippets
• Code Snippets 2
• Facebook vs. MySpace
• OpenSocial Functions
• Environment Parameters
• Useful MySpace JS
• MySpace with ZF

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