MySpace has announced that it is planning to launch a new “Editor’s Pick” category in its application directory next week, allowing members to quickly sift through the platform’s best apps. MySpace had previously shown a handful of featured apps as users browsed its Apps Directory, but these rotated and there was no way to browse through them. Now, users will be able to access a stable list of the best apps as determined by a team of MySpace employees who work with the applications on a daily basis (all apps will be chosen by merit, not through paid sponsorships).
MySpace is beginning to accept submissions from developers today, which can be sent in by following these instructions:
If you’d like to be considered for this category, please send an email to developerrelations(at)myspace dot com. Include “Editor’s Pick Category” in the subject line, and provide a reason why you feel your application should be in the spotlight and why your application stands above the rest. Be sure to include the a 200 character description and an 128×128 icon image.
Since social networks began to offer support for third party applications (a trend that began with the launch Facebook Platform in May 2007), one of the biggest issues facing users has been weeding out the best applications from the countless spammy and useless apps available. Last summer Facebook announced that it was going to launch a Verified Apps program that would offer approved applications extra exposure and benefits not afforded to standard apps.
We’re still waiting. In November Facebook announced that it would charge a $375 fee for developers to apply – a fee that we likened to a protection racket. To make matters worse, Facebook is running behind on the program (which was supposed to launch ‘early this year’), and developers are getting antsy.
At this point it’s unclear how similar MySpace’s Editor’s Picks will be to Facebook’s Verified Apps program – the MySpace program is certainly less structured that Facebook’s, and I suspect it won’t be nearly as comprehensive. But it’s still something that lets members know that the applications they’re using can be trusted.
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My son does.
I lot of younger people seem to dig it.
I use it to promote my band. Just kidding. I’m a sexual predator.
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MySpace pages are already a mess, don’t know how that should get better with apps.
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I now use my myspace just to show my friendfeed and facebook badge. Bands use it, and honestly alot of people that just got online use it. I think everybody really into the tech biz underestimates myspace. http://myspace.com/jtle918
I use it only because some of my friends refuse to leave.
Me too, the same thing.
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What friends, Jason? Justin? Britney?
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Who cares about myspace. We tried to launch an app there, and it took them forever to put out restful stuff and the apps there do not do as well as facebook. Myspace is the next yahoo. It’s losing badly to facebook like yahoo did to google and it will become irrelevant soon.
I don’t use Facebook or Twitter. Honestly, I don’t understand what they are for, or how they could make me any money. From what I hear, it just sounds like a lot of people waste a lot of time on Facebook and Twitter talking about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness… without ever making any money.
Being a solo musician, MySpace allows me to have a page where there are MP3’s of my music available for a listen, and when I have gigs I can invite my friends via Event Invitations and Bulletins. Facebook and Twitter – as I understand it – don’t have dedicated musician and artist pages. Until they do, they are useless from my perspective.
Personally, I’m glad that Facebook and Twitter are taking the more mundane and banal people off of MySpace. It leaves MySpace less cluttered with detritus and more oriented toward musicians and music fans.
When I asked my manager how Facebook could land me gigs and make me money, she had no answer, so I have an account there that she set up – and have for over a year – but I’ve never even bothered to log into it.
Of course, I’m 51 and don’t have much patience with this whole social networking concept anyway. LOL!
This is fantastic news for MySpace developers! We launched 3 games recently and two of them were listed in the “Recently Popular” category in the apps gallery, which lead to a massive traffic spike for us (1,000s of users added the apps within hours).
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Jason, Myspace currently Accepting New API from developers. Fantastic post jason. keep it up!