Official: MySpace Platform

In a Q&A session last night at the Web 2.0 conference, Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe revealed details on the much rumored plans for the MySpace Platform, a way for third-parties to develop applications that directly interact with and leverage MySpace data and functionality ala Facebook's Platform. A few key take-aways... Prior to the full launch of its developer platform, MySpace will publish a directory of existing third party widgets and tools to help users find good content to add to their MySpace profiles. In the next month or two, MySpace will roll out a full developer platform, which, as TechCrunch notes, "will essentially be a set of APIs and a new markup language that will allow third party developers to ...