if the guidline were to also be applied to updating a user's feed, two popups will need to be displayed.

Hello,

I have a question in regards to the new activites feed feature and how its usage pertains to the application guidelines.  I am aware that the guidlines were written before the activities feature was released, so it may need some updating. Nonetheless, I would like to get feedback from myspace before I begin integrating the activities featuer into an app.

 According to the app guidlines:

• initiate a MySpace messaging or profile post/update form to a User without prompting. Messaging forms may only be presented to a User upon a click to "send Bulletin," "Comments," "Update Status," "Post to Profile," etc

Does this rule apply to updating the user's activity feed?  I know that the production version of updating a user's activity feed will generate a popup asking the user for permission, much like how postto works.

However, will my app have to prompt the user prior to the permission popup for generating an acvitivy feed? For example,

1. user performs an action on my app

2. application prompts user w/ a popup: "Would you like to notify your friends that you did <this action>?"

3. if user selects yes, then display myspace's postto prompt: "May I have your permission to post this action to your activity feed?"

4. user selects yes again, and then the update is published in user's feed.

In other words, if the guidline were to also be applied to updating a user's feed, two popups will need to be displayed.

Good question about the guidelines but I think because members can decide which activities they want to see - it should not be an issue. If they don't want to see any then they can uncheck all the boxes and they'll never see a single one.

 RE: allowing popups, depends on what you mean by popup? the little grey over box like "add this app"? or windows popping up outside myspace. Regardless, let me talk to the rule makers and get a more clear answer for ya :)

Rhonda

By popup, I mean prompting the user w/ a window to alert him that he will be presented w/ an activity feed permissions popup.

Let me follow up w/ an example using one of myspace's more popular app, Own You Friends.

In Own Your Friends, the primary action of the app is to buy your myspace friends. When you perform the action to buy a friend, you are presented w/ a popup (popup 1) asking if you would like to send your friend an invitation, message, or some form of communication.  In this popup, you have the option to cancel or continue.  If you select yes, you are presented w/ a postto popup (popup 2) with an option to cancel or continue.  If you select ok, your message/invite/communication will be sent to your friends.

By conforming to this flow, Own Your Friend follows the app guidline b/c it "prompts a user before initiating a MySpace messaging or profile post/update form to a User ".

Suppose the Own You Friend app wants to implement the activity feed feature and decides to add it to the buy action, so that buying a friend will also update the user's activity feed.  Will the app need to follow the same exact flow as outlined above, presenting a popup before the activity permissions popup?

 Marco is out today but he'll be back tomorrow, so I didn't get a solid answer cause he is spearheading this :)

In the meantime I am going to need to run this by our folks that work with the guidelines as well.  

Rhonda