Launch of MySpace platform

The MySpace platform is now available. This is the coverage from Inside Facebook (which no doubt now should be called Inside FaceSpace). Lots of interesting widgety stuff here that we will tease out over the next few weeks.

Inside Facebook » Notes from tonight's MySpace Developer Platform launch

MySpace officially announced the MySpace Developer Platform to the developer community tonight at the MDP Launch Party in San Francisco. Many of the top Facebook developers were in attendance to meet the MySpace Development Platform team.

MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe led off the evening and introduced MySpace CTO Aber Whitcomb and COO Amit Kapur to introduce the highlights of the Platform.

Aber:

* We’re going to fully support OpenSocial standards, the documentation of our exact specs is live on the developer site.

* We’re going to democratize the platform launch by giving everyone one month to test drive the platform and build apps before releasing them to our users.

* Think of the profile page as friend facing, and the home page as self facing.

* We’re going to iterate on the platform over the next month.

* You’re going to have to use Caja for security.

Amit:

* We’re going to let you monetize your apps however you want and keep 100% of the revenue, “like you may be used to.”

* We’re going to try to apply some of our hypertargeting expertise to help developers make money.

* We really want to make this work for developers.

* Several top Facebook developers have created demo apps quickly for tonight, including iLike, Flixster, Slide, and RockYou.