Inside Facebook

As announced by Tom Anderson two weeks ago, MySpace’s new application guidelines go into effect this week - tomorrow at 5pm PT to be exact. Recently, MySpace’s application team gave more explicit guidance on reasons some applications are being denied for approval. Some of those that were not clear before include:

• Issue:  When a visitor [user who does not have the app installed] visits the profile of a user who has the app installed:
  • the application does not properly load on the Profile Surface;
    
  • the visitor is taken to the application Canvas but nothing loads;
    
  • the visitor is taken to the application Canvas but the user’s information is populated (the application thinks the visitor is the user); or
    
  • the visitor is taken to the application Canvas but none of the application’s personalized content loads (the application does not know who the user is).

The MySpace Platform team also started posting release notes with each weekly update to the platform. You can find those here.