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Friday, January 8, 2010

MySpace announces developer challenge



 MySpace announces a developer contest to find new developers to write compelling applications on the MySpace social networking platform
The social networking site MySpace has announced developer challenge for developer community to find new developers to write applications on MySpace.
In a blog post by Amy Walgenbach, a spokesperson for MySpace said, competition is aimed at encouraging further innovation from the developer community. We believe the best onsite and offsite integrations with MySpace are not here yet and the MySpace Developer Challenge intends to find them. We also want to reward innovative developers big and small and recognize them as much as we can.
The contest enable developers to create new MySpace application, integrating our Real-Time Stream API, Open Search API, Photo Upload API, or by integrating MySpace on the iPhone.
Elaborating on time-frame, criteria and rules for MySpave Developer contest Walgenbach said, The challenge also features monetary and promotional prizes, to be given out to those developers whose submissions are picked by our panel of judges.
The categories for MySpace Developer Challenge includes, Most innovative use of the Real-Time Stream API, Best new MySpace app, Most innovative use of the Open Search API,  Most innovative MySpace Integration on Mobile and Most innovative use of Photos.
Submissions for the Challenge will be accepted January 4 through Feb 24, 2010 and winners will be announced at the Games Developer Conference in San Francisco in March 2010 added Walgenbach.