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• October 01 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Updating Permissions on REST API endpoints
  At MySpace we take the privacy of our users seriously.  As we continue to improve the privacy controls and permissions being presented to our users we will be applying these upgraded permission controls to both the newer OpenSocial 1.0 REST APIs (...)
  
• September 15 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  New App Viral Features
  We've recently introduced three new viral features that we feel will make it easier for games to grow on myspace. Here's a rundown of the new goodies for developers...Enabled Share on myspace for onsite apps. This is an improved way for apps (...)
  
• August 30 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Introduces Sync with Facebook
  Today we're introducing Sync with Facebook, www.myspace.com/guide/sync, which allows MySpace users, musicians, and celebrities around the world to sync their status updates with their Facebook profile or Page, while also offering them the ability (...)
  
• August 19 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Searching for Games Just Got Easier
  We've recently made some changes to our global search product to allow users to discover games more easily. Our current search product is tabbed by content vertical, so users can search for something within Music or Video. We have now added a Gam (...)
  
• August 12 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  App Testing on the User Homepage and Profile Surfaces
  Over the past few days we have been testing different options for the amount of apps a user can display on their homepage (UHP) and profile.  Due to this testing, some of your apps may be affected and may not show on the UHP or profile for som (...)
  
• August 11 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Previews New User Homepage With Two Column Stream
  Starting this week, users have the option to preview our new user homepage. The new user homepage prominently displays the activity stream and makes sharing and discovering new content easier than ever. As users log-in to MySpace, there is a prompt (...)
  
• August 05 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Updates on Daily Limits for App Invites
  Hello pirates, ninjas, and developers... just a quick update on our efforts to limit (throttle) the number of invites a user can send via an app per day. In the original blog post, we communicated the plan was to initially limit invites that can be s (...)
  
• August 04 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  New Canvas Ad Unit
  Today we began testing the location of two new ad units on the App Canvas page (the game play surface). Since the units appear in the gutters of App Canvas pages (the game play surface area), they will not affect the current size of the Canvas page. (...)
  
• July 23 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Showing 1.0 Apps on Profile
  We've been getting occassional reports of apps written in 1.0 not showing when they correctly specify a content block for the profile surface.ex: <Content type="html" view="profile"> ... </Content> While we' (...)
  
• June 23 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Apps Shortcut Added to the WebIM Bar
  We are continuing to add new ways for users to engage with their Apps and Games on MySpace.  Today we have added a shortcut to users’ Apps from the WebIM bar.  All users by default have access to the WebIM bar, and it persistent at the bo (...)
  
• June 22 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  New Games filter in the Stream
  We wanted to make you aware of some Game and App testing we’re doing in the Stream starting today. We’ve added Games filters so users can sort through the Stream based on the content they want to see. So, users that just want to see posts relate (...)
  
• June 14 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Planned Maintenance Affecting Apps on 6.15.2010
  A quick heads up that we have some planned network maintenance scheduled for tomorrow morning, June 15th.  The maintenance window is from 7:00AM - 10:00AM (PST). We have scheduled it in the morning to minimize disruption.  The impact during (...)
  
• June 04 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Tips for More Effective Notifications
   Hopefully, most of you are taking advantage of our App Notifications feature.  Anecdotally we hear that app notifications contribute to over 20% of traffic for games on MySpace, so if you’re not using this viral channel you’re missing (...)
  
• June 02 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Launches Developer Services Program
  MySpace has some impressive partners that share our vision to provide tools and resources to help developers build engaging, fun, and profitable integrations with MySpace. Today, we're announcing the Developer Services program that will provide d (...)
  
• May 25 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Real-Time Stream Enhancements
  As a part of our efforts to offer developers public real-time data to enhance their applications, we’ve added song and video plays to our Real-Time Stream. These are based on the Activity Stream spec. The song plays include metadata about the artis (...)
  
• May 21 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Welcomes Social Gaming Developers
  As I discussed at GDC in March, we are focused on enhancing our social gaming platform and are deeply committed to helping developers of all sizes increase visibility for their games on MySpace. Today, we’re excited to introduce the MySpace Games L (...)
  
• May 19 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  MySpace Launches New SDK for Android, Apple
  By Bjorn Laurin, GM and VP, MySpace MobileAt MySpace, we’re committed to offering developers the building blocks and resources to create engaging apps and social games. Today, the company is announcing a new SDK for developers to integrate MySpace (...)
  
• May 12 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Planned Changes for Daily Limiting of App Invites
  The ability to trigger and send invites to a user's friends is considered the most valuable viral channel for apps/games.  In order to preserve the value of this mechanism and encourage authentic growth for apps, MySpace will soon be impleme (...)
  
• April 28 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  Scoreloop Adds MySpace to their Core Social SDK
  We have teamed up with Scoreloop, the worldʼs leading enabler of mobile social gaming, in order to allow game developers to fully exploit social networking in their own game development. Scoreloop allows developers to drive game discovery and increa (...)
  
• April 28 2010 - MySpace Developer Blog
  OpenSocial State of the Union Summit on May 18th
  This has been an amazing year for OpenSocial. The spec group hammered out the full release 1.0 version of the OpenSocial specification, we cleaned up the APIs, and added a templating system. MySpace launched a major revision of the open platform wi (...)
  

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