Wednesday announcements from Twitter and MySpace further indicated that social networking is now part of mainstream computing. At LeWeb, the European Internet event held in Paris, Twitter announced that it is opening up its data stream to all developers. Meanwhile, MySpace, which lags behind Facebook in the social networking scene, has released free application programming interfaces and launched an application developer contest. Twitter will make what it called its “fire hose” of data available to all developers in 2010.
Twitter, MySpace to Shower Devs With Data
Posted by: Richard Adhikari December 9, 2009 11:31 AMWednesday announcements from Twitter and MySpace further indicated that social networking is now part of mainstream computing. At LeWeb, the European Internet event held in Paris, Twitter announced that it is opening up its data stream to all developers. Meanwhile, MySpace, which lags behind Facebook in the social networking scene, has released free application programming interfaces and launched an application developer contest. Twitter will make what it called its “fire hose” of data available to all developers in 2010.