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In a post on the company’s developer blog on Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some changes to the management of its third-party developer projects. This encompasses both the Facebook platform, which opened up the social network to third-party applications and took off like wildfire when it launched in 2007, and the newer Facebook Connect, which brings Facebook log-in credentials to participating outside sites….
No employees have departed the company or were laid off in the process, a Facebook spokesman told CNET News in an e-mail.
The new head of platform and Facebook Connect engineering is

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As expected, MySpace has announced that it will launch its developer platform on Tuesday morning.
MySpace, which is owned by News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media, is one of the most high-profile social media companies to be working with Google’s new OpenSocial standard…. All applications for the MySpace Developer Platform will be OpenSocial-compatible with MySpace-specific extensions.
A look at MySpace’s developer site.
(Credit: MySpace and Webware)
Developers will have access to all public profile data (interests, region, friends’ list) and will be able to use JavaScript and HTML as well as ActionScript, which powers Flash applications. Most of the

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