Posts Tagged ‘Open Platform’

MySpace announced its plans for a more open ID approach to login and site interoperability late last year, and today a few new features that have been tacked onto MySpaceID are taking the company further in the open direction. The highlights of today’s announcement include extended functionality for MySpaceID, a new SDK for developers looking to integrate their own websites and applications into MySpace profiles, and testing for MySpaceID implementation on the Yahoo! homepage.

For the new MySpaceID SDK, developers can access user activity streams, and incorporate seamless authentication for their sites and applications. Such an offering makes login, access and cross-site activity much easier for both users and developers, while encouraging the growth and adoption of more open standards.
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TimeXchange is a time-sharing application that has seen the good, bad and ugly aspects of online social networking. A service that set out with a social perspective in mind, TimeXchange has spent the last couple of years determining the best way to fit into the social scene for an area of data sharing that isn’t quite so glamorous.

Thanks to open platforms and more importantly, the Apple Application Store, TimeXchange is seeing a great deal of growth and adoption as its service is made even easier to use. Today, the company announces that it’s opening its mobile platform for the purpose of encouraging developers to build even more applications that will further benefit end users and take TimeXchange to the next realm as a social utility for time-sharing and project management. Below is an interview with Jim Figliulo of TimeXchange.
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