MySpace has been lagging in the social networking process lately, but they just opened their eyes platform. Loren writes about the Macworld announcement made today, that MySpace will be opening up its platform just as Facebook already has.
A source close to Userplane mentioned that they have been in talks with MySpace for the past couple weeks. MySpace has been suffering largely because they didn’t know how to scale their platform for the flood of users that joined MySpace.
Facebook has taken the higher road by creating standards within their platform while MySpace has, well, not. MySpace has become a community known for teens and the immature while Facebook initially took off just for college students.
Facebook opened to the world and now they opened up the flood gates for marketing, advertising, diversity, creativity, and ultimately a platform for anyone to use.
Userplane Services
- Userplane Webchat 2 – delivers full-featured, text/voice/video multi-user chatting.
- Userplane Webmessenger 2 – provides live text/voice/video instant messaging.
- Userplane Webrecorder – enables users to record and share voice/video messages.
- Userplane Desktop – turns the lights on with web and desktop-based live user presence.
- Userplane Feeds – adds features and functionality via free content API’s.
Userplane has some great services that allow for other sites to integrate directly into Userplane products with ease. They have a bright future.
MySpace is in talks with Userplane to launch some sort of integration beyond their typical service.
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