Myspace And Facebook - Outsourcing Application Development
By Tetridia
After Facebook's annoucement to open its doors to "new and innovative" applications as previously reported
(New fun features for Facebook), MySpace is set to follow its footsteps, and gets outside developers to contribute new applications to their website.
Since adding new applications to its website has enjoyed some expected success and growth. Users can now share videos, audio and photos, and it has become a window for finding such services.
With the addition of new features, MySpace is looking to offer its users a similar type of services and continues competing at a similar level. Currently is the UK's most popular social networking website - with 47 million users worldwide, but Myspace is still the worlds biggest community with 188 million users.
As per Chris Dewolfe, MySpace's chief executive, "the idea will be to allow outside developers to tightly integrate their applications into MySpace (...) I would say we're different (than Facebook) and in spite of all the hype we seem to be growing faster".
This
new step will definitely give this company another competitive edge on and increase the value of social networking websites, not only in the digital world but also in general markets. These are good news for all users finding new ways to promote themselves online. In the past 2 years musicians, such as Lilly Allen and Kate Nash, have found MySpace to be a perfect launching and social networking site, and could enjoy platinum success.
Anja Glauch is the co-founder and managing director of Tetridia Ltd. She began her career in Information Technology more than 11 years ago. She is leading the companies Online Marketing, Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimisation activities.
