MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace “Data Availability” and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of the Internet.

A mockup of how the data sharing will look in action with Twitter is shown above. MySpace is essentially making key user data, including (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks, available to partners via their (previousy internal) RESTful API, along with user authentication via OAuth.

Via TechCrunch

Via MarketWire

PALO ALTO, CA–(Marketwire - April 21, 2008) - Gigya, the largest performance-based widget distribution network and provider of tools and technologies for distributing, tracking and analyzing widgets, and MySpacePros.com, the leading community site for MySpace developers, today announced a partnership to provide new business tools, information and support to the MySpace developer community.

“We can’t think of a more natural partnership than this one between MySpacePros, the most comprehensive and trusted site for MySpace Developers, and Gigya, the developer’s tool of choice for enabling widget distribution and tracking,” said Eyal Magen, CEO. “Providing new tools that help MySpace developers to grow their businesses helps both of our companies increase the value we provide to this important user group.”

Read the full press release

Social Networking Webmasters

Adsense got you down? Did they kick you out for no reason…tick you off for a few days, then tell you your back in the program while forfeiting your previously earned profits?

Can’t get into Valueclick? Or any of those other CPM Programs that are impossible to get into?

Failing to monetize on your site the way that you want?

Bokay, enough is enough, you get the point. In a nutshell, to continue to get you to the baller status that you want I’ve been testing out a new program called PoorAffiliate. They have built a simple script that you add to your resource sites. Basically when a users go to grab a code from your site to paste onto their profile, they have to fill out an incentivized offer first before they get that privilege. If they don’t then the code is locked, until they click on the offer to fill out. All of these offers are randomly generated by the PoorAffiliate script. A lot of other webmasters on myspacepros have also said they’ve had excellent success from this script. Many saying that it pays more than Adsense, which is very true. So I leave you with this the link to PoorAffiliate’s signup page.

Get da money!

Misterproline

Happy Holidays to all of you!

It has been quite a good run for all of us in 2007, let’s take it to the next level in 2008!

Few things to look out for in 2008.

- Myspace Applications

- Yahoo Mash leaving Beta and going public.

- Another Social Networking site getting big. (could be mash)

- Websites continuing to sell links to go down in page rank and seo position.

Signing off,

Misterproline

If you have not heard Yahoo! has released a beta version of their new social network, Mash. This answers the question to my previous entry as to if Yahoo! would purchase Myspace. Newsflash! They aren’t interested. Mash has been in beta for only a few days and has already had decent reviews from Myspace Webmasters and Mash Users.

What will this mean for Myspace Webmasters?
1. Myspace Webmasters have a great advantage and step ahead in the content relations game.
2. More revenue.
3. YPN needs to could change it’s entire outlook on Mash Resource Sites.

So will Mash be successful? I believe it comes down to how well their marketing campaign is executed and how much support they get from the content webmasters mainly in the MyspacePros.com Community. The users will flourish if those two aspects are taken care of. Let’s do our part and get it on in a flash!

Christine “Forbidden” Dolce, Tila Tequila and Bobbi Billard each have accumulated more than a million admirers on MySpace.com, making them among the handful of most popular people on the world’s most popular social networking website.

That may have something to do with the amount of skin they show on their MySpace pages. More obscured than their bawdy photo galleries, however, are their attempts to cash in on their online fame by using MySpace as a storefront to sell perfume, poker and soft-core porn.

The cyber pin-ups can’t come right out and peddle their wares because MySpace officially bans most commerce. But any suitor would have little trouble finding online pathways to the three hotties by following “hints” they drop on their MySpace pages.

And these detours are the subject of intense debate at MySpace, Rupert Murdoch’s prized Internet property.

MySpace bans commerce between its members because it doesn’t want to jeopardize the corporate advertising that accounts for the vast majority of its profit. Allowing its members to promote their wares would only clutter up the place.

“We don’t want users’ pages to start looking like NASCAR,” MySpace Chief Executive Chris DeWolfe said.

Read the full story at the L.A. Times

This one is from Mashable and is just another example of Myspace jumping before looking. I honestly don’t think they have a development branch of Myspace.com and am beginning to think they beta test with the production site.

This is just bizarre: MySpace has started to filter out the letter “i” on MySpace blogs - all of them. No matter where the letter “i” appears in a word or sentence, it gets replaced with “..”. The only place where an “i” can be used is in the title of a post.

MySpace users, of course, have been trying to complain about it on their blogs, with the obvious limitation that they can’t actually mention the blocked letter in their complaints. You can see some fun examples here, here, here, here and here (contains swearing, if you’re sensitive about that kinda thing).

We can only assume that MySpace is really, really fed up of all the iPhone coverage. Sorry, we mean the ..phone.

Go to Mashable for more

While not completely related to myspace marketing alone, AdSense is very much related to what we do and Google has quitely added a new feature to AdSense. You can read all AdSense’s rounded corners at my (unfinished) blog.

That’s right - it has been proposed that News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch who owns Myspace has declared a grand offer to Yahoo. It has been reported that Murdoch has offered Yahoo FULL ownership of Myspace for a 25% stake in Yahoo.

Honestly if I were Yahoo it is rather risky to say the least. However Yahoo can manage Myspace a lot better than it has been in the last few years since News Corp’s purchase. The aquiring of Myspace would also help Yahoo rebound a bit against Google. In the past year Google has acquired Youtube - the highly popular video sharing site.

Will Myspace have a new owner again in such short time? Will this affect Myspace Webmasters in anyway? Sign on the dotted line Yahoo and we will see!

To be continued…

Check this out. You want to listen to your favorite bands music on the go, but downloading their mp3’s is a pain. Enter this site I came across called http://myspacemp3.org. You enter the bands name and it generates a list of all their music. Click the thumbtack image to download.

I really like when people take the time to develop technology that just “works” . Good job guys.