Myspace and Facebook App Developers Are Slow
Social Network Applications (Apps) are all the rage these days. It started with a Poke and now everybody wants to be a Mobster. MMORPG’s have seen a resurgence in popularity thanks to developers like Zynga and The Godfather adapting the dying gameplay style to today’s hottest Social Networks. Currently Mobsters, the top Myspace Application, boasts 12,834,528 users. Myspace Applications were a long time coming. The Myspace Developer Platform (based on the OpenSocial API) went live February of this year (2008), putting it over a year behind the launch of Facebook’s massive list of Applications.
But Myspace as a whole are not the only ones that are slow in terms of expanding upon their developer community. Myspace Application Developers themselves are leaving lots of money on the table. While perusing the Facebook Application inventory I noticed that some of the biggest Facebook Applications have yet to be ported over to Myspace, and vice-versa. What a shame! These “professional” developers are dropping the ball all over the place.
It’s like buying a .com and not protecting your brand by purchasing the .net and the .org, at the very least. I’ve seen this done as well. It’s sloppy, but it opens the window of opportunity for smaller web developers like myself. Opportunities like this are always presenting themselves, and while developing a Application for Myspace or Facebook may require a little more money and knowledge than other methods of making money online, situations like this teach us to always keep our eyes open, because you never know when that window will open again.
