How do you send message or send notifications (such as invite or request) to friends without the application using the myspace api?

Basically, is there a equivalent of the Facebook "invite/request" mechanism?

Thanks!

Hi Deevonator,

Good question. This is indeed an essential mechanism for marketing your application. We are currently working on this, however it is not part of this developers release.

Marco

when you say "this" developer release do you mean by tomorrow or when applications offically launches off in March?

How does any messaging based app work then?  Take something simple like gifts, how would you be able to send or receive gifts?

Any ETA on this?

(Someone from myspace?) 

just wanted to bump this. i too think this is of the HIGHEST importance. I just don't see how a truly social app can be made without being able to invite users. How do "punch" someone and invite them to join fight club. How do you "bite" someone and invite them to join the vampires app. Etc ...

I am also very concerned about this. If my users can't conveniently invite their friends to join in their activities it becomes extremely difficult to really get a good app to many people. This also provides the big app players with an unnatural advantage in retaining their position because they can make an app that is not as good or as fun and simply by virtue of their existing numbers of users many more people will see their app.

I'm not sure how this is gonna work when we go LIVE.  

I know eventually, we'll have an APP gallery, it's just not visible now. 

I'm also sorry you had to bump this several times to get some answers.

I'll look into it.

ron 

Is there any way we can post to friend's message board (aka wall)?

Can we post to our own message board?

Does the activity stream work?

Wall? What's this "Wall" of which you speak? I know comments and bulletins... :D

Ultimately, we do want to allow api access to comments, bulletins, activity feed, etc. We're still working out the details on how that will work, some on our end, some working with Google on Open Social (activity feed, specifically). 

But we do fully understand the absolute hard need for application developers to spread their app virally, and are going to make sure you have a number of ways to do that. 

Stephanie,

Just to be clear, is myspace planning on making the apps public before the notification methods are worked out?  Or are you working toward having this defined beforehand?

Like most everyone else who's chimed in, notifications are crucial to our app.

Thanks in advance!

Sue 

Without notifications or a way to get to other user, social apps will be just of no use..

Any timeline will be highly appreciated

First, I recommend that everyone read the blogs before posting questions that are answered threre. Most of this stuff has been covered and discussed in those blogs. That's that they're there for. The link to the Blogs is just to left of the 'My Apps' link in the top navigation bar.

The DATA Api and the Activities Api ara both discussed there, and will both be available before the MDP Launch date, and I suspect that they'll, at the very least, be in basic beta testing phase before the MySpace DevJams (though, don't quote me on that). MySpaces' big concern is that with the massive number of MySpace users, that both of these functions be fully scalable to.

Also, it might be hard to find because of the absolute slew of posts on the subject, but a couple members of the MDP Team have said that the Activities API will be the first "stage" to implement virality. Other methods will come available as time goes on, but probably not likely before GoLive date. The big concern, as far as that goes, is not preventing Apps from being merely viral to but to keep them from being downright annoying. I think we all believe that we aren't going to exploit auto-messaging features, but, lets face it, there will be MySpace app developers who would, and all that can do is hurt the rest of us who want to make high quality apps that other MySpace users can enjoy.

So, in the meantime, cocentrate on creating the best apps you can, and worry about virality later. :).

 Thanks for that, Jeremy...I think you've said it all :)

Thanks Jeremy, you did help me go to the correct part of the blog..

hoping this is the portion, or did I miss out on something..

 Speaking of virality, we're also working on the Activities API. It's quite
        challenging to make it both flexible and scalable. As soon as we have a good
        picture of how it will look, we'll give you examples so you can get started

 And the virality which is currently there:

 Why aren't they here already? Well, MySpace is kind of huge, and MySpace profiles
tend to be very public--especially profiles of popular bands and celebrities.
That creates a lovely atmosphere for virality, because popular profiles tend to
be loci of friendship clusters, thus minimizing the degrees of separation
between users. Hopefully those popular profiles will pick up your app and make
it go viral.

 Thats quite a chance... and it seems I can get my app on my friends profiles only by requesting them manually... and to have a celebrity friend is quite a bit luck.

Just humbly asking if we can get just an idea when we can let an app user send message to another nonapp/app user.  I am just asking will it be before the final apps launchdate and we will be able to integrate it in our apps or will it be in a latter push.. 

Just  feeling lost without "user to user interaction"..

So after looking at the blog and this post.. I am still totally uncertain as to how to accomplish this.

Is there any update on if/when there will be the functionallity to invite from a friends list?

Thanks

Steve