MySpace Developer Platform Launches: Worst API Ever
Posted on February 5th, 2008 in Web |

The MySpace Developer Platform has launched at developer.myspace.com, based on Google’s OpenSocial spec. As the largest social network, it is ridiculous that MySpace is building upon the OpenSocial API, which, in many peoples’ opinion (including my own), is used to build not applications, but widgets.
If you’re a Facebook Platform veteran, you’ll notice the following changes:
- You create a separate profile for your application. Similar to Bebo.
- You can set homepage markup, to be shown on peoples’ homepages.
- There’s no callback URL.
That’s right - no callback URL. Here is how you build your application:

I’m not too impressed. Job terribly done.