MySpace Developer Team : activity stream

New Features for OpenSocial 0.9 REST APIs

krunal — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:38:00 GMT

Hi everyone,

We are extending our 0.9 REST API offerings by adding new endpoints as well as adding new features to existing endpoints to make our 0.9 offering richer. We are committed to exposing data through Open Standards so app developers can create the finest applications on the web. Some of these new features are not part of the previous MySpace REST APIs so this should encourage you to switch to 0.9 if you haven’t done so already.

The link to the main resource page for REST 0.9 APIs is located here. Please find documentation links and highlights of these new features below. Please review our Terms of use, especially Section 10.2, before you start using these features.

New Endpoints

StatusMoodComments

This endpoint provides a way to fetch the comments posted on a user’s StatusMood updates. It also provides a way to request the comment author’s basic info (image, name and profile URL) along with the comments themselves. This could reduce the number of calls to the server you need to make if you plan on displaying the commenter’s data along with the comments.

Please see details here.

ProfileComments

This provides a way to fetch the comments posted on a user’s profile. It also provides a way to request the comment author’s basic info along with the comments, which again will reduce the number of calls to the server if that information is needed.

Please see details here.

MediaItemComments
You can now fetch comments posted on a user’s images and videos. Again, this endpoint allows you to fetch the comment author’s basic info to save a second request to the server.

Please see details here.

Enhancements

StatusMood

The StatusMood endpoints now offer APIs to fetch friends’ status mood updates as well as provides a way to fetch StatusMood history.
Apps can also fetch recent comments on a user status in the same call.
MySpace now allows syncing/updating StatusMood from various sources like Twitter. You can get that information in your requests.

Check the documentation for the StatusMood APIs here.

Also don’t forget to check out the filters that this endpoint has to offer.

Activities

We are also adding Activity Streams extension properties to activities returned from our OpenSocial 0.9 Activities endpoint in this release. Activity Streams is a data format that describes what people are doing around the web, for example: posting photos and videos, sharing music with friends and writing blog entries. If you are already familiar with the Activity Streams atom format, you can now access all the Activity Streams goodness, like actors, verbs, objects and object-types, in JSON and plain old XML. Find more information about Activity Streams on the http://activitystrea.ms web site.

Check out the MySpace implementation for the same here.

SDKs

Our PHP and Java SDKs have been updated to support these new features and the others are in the works. Also, these new features are developed using Open Standards like OpenID, OAuth and OpenSocial which should help make your experience smooth.

Also, if you have missed out, visit this earlier blog post for more information about complete suite of REST 0.9 APIs.

Happy coding!

Microsoft enriches Windows Live, Messenger, and Hotmail products by using MySpace’s ActivityStrea.ms API

Donny Mack (DM) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:54:00 GMT

Posted by Monica Keller, MySpace Group Architect, Activity Streams

I’m excited to announce that today Windows Live will start broadcasting MySpace user activity streams to their Windows Live Platform via MySpaceID. The MySpaceID integration with Windows Live keeps you updated on what’s happening on MySpace. Windows Live users can see their activities from MySpace, and those activities can now be distributed across the Windows Live network, enhancing their user experience by providing rich contextual user information. Now you can see the following activities from within Windows Live, Windows Live Messenger, and Hotmail:

Status updates
Blog Entries
Photo uploads
Music

And more activities coming soon... Click here to learn about our activitystrea.ms api.

To check out this MySpaceID integration, do the following:

1. Sign into your Windows Live account by visiting http://profile.live.com/WebActivities/add.aspx?AppID=1140860417

2. Click Add web activities

3. Choose MySpace from the options

4. Add MySpace to your Windows Live account

5. See all your MySpace activities and share them with your Windows Live network

Our Windows Live MySpaceID implementation is built on the activitystrea.ms open standard, making today’s announcement another important step forward in MySpace’s continued commitment to promoting open standards across the Web. Utilizing an increasingly open Web enables our users to broadcast, discover, and express themselves in richer ways across multiple networks.

I hope you enjoy and let us know what you think.

Thanks,

Monica

MySpace Group Architect, Activity Streams

New Viral Channel for MySpace Apps

Test User — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:41:00 GMT

App Activities are now visible to all the friends of a user, regardless if they have the App installed. This means that App Activities are another channel by which your App can virally grow.

If you are already publishing App Activities, you technically do not need to make any changes, however we encourage you to think about how to best leverage App Activities as a user acquisition channel.

To ensure a quality user experience, we provide users the ability to block unwanted App Activities and other communications. If the user has the App installed, they will have the option to turn off receiving App Activities for the App or uninstalling the App. If the user does not have the App installed, they have the option to block all communications from the App.

As always, the user experience is of utmost concern to us. We'll be closely monitoring the use of this feature. Any developers that are found to be abusing this functionality to the detriment of the user or in violation of the Terms of Usage will be dealt with immediately.

The team has put in a lot of hard work into this feature and the required infrastructure to support it. We look forward to seeing the results of developers taking advantage of this new viral growth channel. Please send us your feedback and success stories.

New Features for MySpaceID Live!

Donny Mack (DM) — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:24:00 GMT

Greetings Developers!

Today the MySpace Open Platform team launched new functionality for MySpaceID and a remarkably useful set of MySpace ID SDKs. Other key updates in the release include fixes for Custom parameters on the callback function. Additionally, today MySpace announced the limited testing of a MySpaceID implementation on the Yahoo! homepage.

New MySpaceID Features:

Activity Stream from Web sites using MySpaceID
MySpace Members' activities on MySpaceID-enabled Web sites can now be streamed to any site on the Web -- increasing engagement on partner sites. Partner sites can filter MySpace Members' activities by the activity feed type: photos, events, music, etc. For example, a photo-sharing site could choose to display activities specific to photo uploading, photo tagging, and photo album creation. We are currently Beta testing, but will have this API available to everyone soon.

Easy authentication using OAuth and OpenID
Integration of both OAuth and OpenID into MySpaceID enables MySpace Members to securely login to MySpaceID-enabled Web sites using their MySpace credentials. The combination of OAuth and OpenID allows MySpace Members to bring their MySpace identity with them, solving the problem of username and password fatigue.

New Application Developer Workflow
The modified MySpace Developer Workflow ("Create App") streamlines the process of building and configuring an application. Especially notable is its dedicated path for MySpaceID application development, which provides developers with “key” data needed to implement secure OAuth access tokens.

To begin, click the Build button in the blue navigation bar.

MySpaceID SDKs - Developer toolkits demonstrate the "Open Stack" approach
MySpace introduces the Beta release of its MySpaceID SDKs for MySpace Open Platform Developers. Developers have been clamoring for toolkits and code examples for months, and they will undoubtedly be very excited about this SDK release, which is based on completely open Web standards. The client libraries are initially being released in PHP, Python, Ruby, .NET and Java, with additional libraries planned in the future for Cocoa and Android.

See the MySpaceID SDK page for an introduction and links to all SDK resources and documentation.

See the MySpaceID documentation for more information.

MySpaceID on the Yahoo! Homepage
The MySpace application is one of several new apps that Yahoo! recently began testing as part of its new Yahoo! homepage. The application enables users to check-in and keep up to date with the information and people they care about most. The launch marks a significant milestone for MySpaceID.

“The MySpace App, currently in testing on the new Yahoo! homepage, adds new social functionality into the Yahoo! experience by using MySpaceID to connect Yahoo! users to their MySpace network,” said Jason Oberfest, general manager of the MySpace Open Platform. "By logging into MySpace from the new App right on the Yahoo! homepage, users get quick access to their MySpace friend updates, friend requests, and can manage their MySpace status, mood and more – all while catching up on their other activities on Yahoo!” he explains. “By working with Yahoo! we have been able to take a big step forward in evolving the open Web. We are very pleased to be working with them.”

The new Yahoo! homepage is currently being tested by a small percentage of Yahoo! users in advance of a public beta. More information is available at: http://ycorpblog.com/2009/02/13/update-on-our-new-homepage-testing/.

With these enhancements, MySpace is the first major social network to have the full "Open Stack" implemented where information is flowing to partner Web sites based on completely open Web standards. MySpace now offers full OpenID support on every custom user URL.

MySpace is also the first major party to implement the new activity stream open specification.