Myspace announced their new application developer platform tonight with semi-locked down event in San Francisco They gave everyone on the RSVP list a free Flip Video Camera and a bag full of other shwag.
After looking through the developer site, I have some serious concerns with the Myspace platform. For one, developers don’t get to host their own code. You have to copy/paste your JavaScript (that’s right, no PHP, ASP.NET, JAVA unless you want to AJAX everything) into a textarea box and submit it to Myspace. Ghetto. Developers want to have the freedom and reign to develop on their own machines, using their tools and have the reassurance of their servers reliability. I for one have seen Myspace go through some major scalability nightmares and downtime issues in the past; not sure that I want my application on those same servers.
The second thing is that the UI is still, well, Myspace. Everything about the design is still very much so — Myspace. I don’t know any other way to put it, it’s just bad. It’s hard to make your Web 2.0 applications look good in a Web 1.0 surrounding.
All in all I am going to have to give Myspace a 9 for shwag, and a low 5 for impressiveness of their platform.
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