API releases from Myspace and Twitter

With every death comes a birth: As well as axing it’s new child Imeem’s API system after the official acquisition, Myspace today announced a new set of APIs to open more data channels for developers to reach in to the wealth of data on the Social Network. COO of Myspace Mike Jones announced this morning at Le Web. The Real Time Stream API is probably the most impressive, allowing a full feed of Myspace activity to be filtered by developers and used.

Status and Mood Commenting API
Enables third-party devs to suck in MySpace status and mood updates and allows people to comment on and interact with the stream from those sites without the need to leave.

Open Search API
Allows third-party sites to include public MySpace profile information in search results. Users will be able to search for people by name, profile type or e-mail address and filter search results by gender, age and location.

Photo Upload API
Enables users to upload photos to MySpace from third-party sites or MySpace Apps. The API enables creation of public or private photo albums.

Updated Version of Post To/Share on MySpace
Facilitates the sharing of content from third-party sites with a MySpace user’s friends. When a user posts content from another site, it goes directly to his/her MySpace activity stream, creating a link back to the third-party site.

via Tech Crunch

This release comes after Google’s announcement earlier this week of its real time search, which will ’soon’ include Myspace data from public profiles, rumoured to go live next month. This is welcome progress by Myspace in terms of opening up to developers, which was no doubt influenced by the success of the vast array of Twitter services and applications,  one of the strongest contributors towards it’s growth and usage.

See the Myspace Developer wiki here for more info, and more specifically the API catalogue.

The second announcement came from this year’s favourite social platform Twitter, who’s platform director Ryan Sarver today assured that early 2010 would see access to the Firehose feed for developers. He also agreed that the future success of Twitter would partly rely on their developers, and the already 50,000 strong library of Twitter apps which are responsible for over 50% of Twitter’s traffic.

The roll out of Firehose availability is really exciting in terms of releasing even richer Twitter applications. Real time tweet data will see a host of new opportunities to enhance user experience on exterior Twitter platforms.

He also announced that a developer specific web site will launch to supplement their existing API reference, joining the already knowledge rich Myspace and Facebook wikis.

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