At MySpace, we recently released several critical new feature enhancements to MySpaceID, a product under the MySpace Open Platform. We delivered OpenID support, an OpenID/OAuth Hybrid experience, and support for syndicating “Friend Updates” via the emerging Activity Streams specification. These new components to the MySpace Open Platform ...

Greetings developers!  JanRain offers a service to help sites easily get going with portable identity solutions by handling the "UI, authentication, and import of user profile and registration data for your website."  It is a great complement to MySpaceID, by offering compatiblity with our identity ...

Greetings Developers, Yesterday, for the first time, we detailed out the framework for all open initiatives at MySpace through a new blueprint called the ‘MySpace Open Platform.’ The primary components of the MySpace Open Platform include: (1) Application Platform, (2) MySpaceID (Formerly Data Availability), (3) Post-To ...

Today, Google announced a single sign-on solution that is powered by OpenID.  This is certainly a fantastic bit of news, and comes on the heels of Microsoft's announcement of their intention to support the standard.  In addition, Chris Messina wrote an excellent post yesterday on how we can overcome the usability problems that have ...

Greeting developers, of the next couple of weeks you can come hearv us talk about our open initiatives at a variety of venues:   SNAP Summit: 10/28 Max Engel: "Building on the Open Identity Stack: How to Power Your Site with the Social Web"   Digital Hollywood: 10/28 Allen Hurff: "Open Social Networking: Definition ...

If you are having trouble with your Data Availability app receiving errors when trying to use OAuth, it is most likely do to how you are specifying your "External Domain" in your application details.  Make sure that for your external site setting, that the information you provided in the OAuth callback schema/parameter matches the ...

Howdy all, Next week MySpace will be on-site for the TechCrunch50 event demoing and discussing our application platform and Data Availability project.  If you are planning on attending, definitely swing by our booth to get the lowdown on OpenSocial, OpenID, OAuth, and all things developer-facing from the MySpace Max's (Newbould and ...