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Facebook Has Competition: MySpace Platform To Launch Next Week (techcrunch.com)
8 points by brett on Oct 10, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


In this corner: Facebook is a pre-IPO tech company with a hacker at the helm and Silicon Valley's finest backing him up.

And in this corner: MySpace has slick executives and a horde of Windows developers who are stuck in LA.

Let's get ready to rumble.


Could we call it something other than a platform? Especially since, for average developer, you already had basically free reign on MySpace's pages? Somebody in the comments there pointed out that Rockyou and Slide got their start on MySpace. Nothin' new...


Interesting shift for myspace. Going from randomly blocking third party applications from profiles to opening up their platform. I wonder if the developers that got burned in the past will trust MySpace this time.




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