MySpace is making a number of announcements today. In addition to MySpaceID, the company will be announcing the launch of MySpace Toolbar for Internet Explorer and Firefox. For now only Windows users will be able to run MySpace Toolbar – a Mac version is promised soon.
The toolbar will effectivey let MySpace users stay logged in constantly, whether they are on the site or not. Authentication and data transfers are accomplished entirely through publicly available APIs and products, collectively known as the MySpace Open Platform.
Toolbar users will automatically log in to MySpace when they open the browser. They will also see a stream of MySpace data, including notifications, friend activity, and mood and status for themelves and their friends. The toolbar will also include a Google-powered bar to search the web and MySpace.
MySpace COO Amit Kapur says that any third party developers could have built this using the MySpace Open Platform, and the company will encourage experimentation.
The toolbar will first be available for users in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, India, and Ireland.
Yet another toolbar that I’ll have to uninstall when [insert software here] decides to be bundled with it.
i have already stumbleupon toolbar added to my firefox. have to weigh the benefits of myspace before adding to the browser.
I’m sorry Myspace, but this just sounds too antiquated for my tastes. It’s almost like its too little, too late on their part to catch up with the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Speaking of which, why isn’t Myspace doing more to make it easier to integrate one’s Twitter account with your Myspace account? The way its working so far seems a bit crippled.
I think this is a good idea. Those teeny boppers won’t think twice about installing it.
What’s MySpace doing, they are going off the line, who uses toolbars??? and if someone wants to download a toolbar they wouldn’t use MySpace’s toolbar. RIP MySpace
I am a teenager and sure I don’t need it…
BUT…
I want it
lol
Hey… FB connect is crashin google chrome hardcore…
Yes, this does sound old-school, and too little too late. No one I know (knowingly) uses toolbars of any kind, including Google’s. They’re memory and CPU cycle hogs in general, and needless with the ease of access to sites and search engines nowadays.
Unless the toolbar makes finding and listening to music wickedly easy (as opposed to their hideously-designed main interface), I won’t touch the thing.
I didn’t know Myspace still employed engineers, aren’t they a marketing company now?
I worked on providing the activities api to the toolbar so I ended up downloading it.
Its nice. I can quickly tell all the latest news about my friends like it shows unread messgaes for examples and moods status updates.
I’ll sell the domain myspacetoolbar.com for 1 billion dollars, mwuahahahaha.
Everybody predicts the end of MySpace and world domination by Facebook. Yes, I use FB and rarely MySpace, but the bottom line for any company is making money and MySpace makes far more of it. FB might be a better product for social networking, far better actually, but unless they figure out how to make money they will be the ones with RIP on a headstone.
Toolbar looks cool !! Very Cool!!
Till date I had to be hooked to myspace.com to check my mails, messages and friend updates. Now I can do all that with the toolbar. I can visit other sites and still be connected to myspace world.
I believe this is first version of toolbar, next version will have lot of cool stuff.
What I don’t understand is what does this toolbar offer that’s different than Myspace IM’s desktop client (another gaff, IMO)? Everything that this toolbar purports to do is already available via Myspace IM. So, this just seems a tad redundant.
yeah! me too.
Anyone want to buy myspacetoolbar.com?
I own it.
There are a number of mature toolbars already out there like Ultimate MySpace Toolbar that have the more functionality like the “Simplify” button that cleans up messy profiles. Check it: http://www.ulti...pacetoolbar.com
can i get it for google chrome???