We are delighted to announce we have our first sponsor for BarCampBrighton3 - MySpace. They are also taking the Gold sponsorship slot so will be covering the costs of the University staff over the weekend. Cheers guys!

As well as sponsoring, the guys from the MySpace developer platform will be attending the event and running a session on using their platform which allows you to develop third party apps for MySpace with OpenSocial. Anyone interested in taking an active role in the session on the day should sign up to the developer platform beforehand as it takes a couple of days for approval to come through.

Here’s a little more information about the platform from the team:

“The MySpace Developer Platform is a combination of services that provides third party application developers with hooks into MySpace’s data and functionality.

These services include:

  • A suite of online tools for creating and publishing applications (and debugging them).
  • A set of RESTful APIs (provided in json, xml, and other formats as needed) that provide endpoints for browser-to-site and site-to-site interaction. These are implemented over the http protocol using a simple, intuitive uri scheme.
  • A mechanism for your application to exchange data with your own site.
  • A system for end users to find and install applications on their profiles.
  • Security mechanisms for protecting end users’ identity, as well as communications verification between MySpace servers and your site.

In short, the MySpace Developer Platform allows you to create stable, secure applications that (if you add the magic sauce) entertain MySpace users and allow them to explore the “social graph” in new and interesting ways. It also enables you to integrate your own site’s functionality into MySpace. What do you get out of it? By writing an application that successfully entertains MySpace users (and believe us when we say they are fickle), you will gain fame, recognition, and traffic to your own site or service.”

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