Let Parents Have MySpace Input
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All of my friends have a MySpace page, but my parents are so protective, they probably won't let me have one. I want to ask them, but I think they'll say no. How can I approach them about it?   -- Sam, 15, Pontiac, Mich.
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News Corp's MySpace, the world's  largest online social network, said on Wednesday it will allow  outside developers further access to its service to counter the  growth of smaller rival Facebook.
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Following Facebook's lead, MySpace will allow outside developers to create applications for its members.
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Think teens and twenty-somethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It&#39;s Grandma and grandkids - some too young to read - who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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Social-networking sites have become an integral part of life for most teens, with talk of collecting friends and tweaking profile pages peppering chatter both online and off. But if a Connecticut lawmaker has his way, access to the sites by underage users would require parental consent.
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MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessary&#160;tools to build applications for the world&#39;s most popular social-networking site.Developers will have about one month to familiarize themselves with the development tools and create and test applications before MySpace begins letting its members install them early in March.&quot;Developers will be able to build applications, but they&#39;ll be in the sandbox environment where consumers won&#39;t be able to see them,&quot; said Kyle Brinkman, vice president and general manager of Platform for MySpace.With the opening of the developer Web site, MySpace gets closer to&#160;catching up to its main rival, Facebook, which opened its platform to external developers in May.For Facebook, despite some bumps along the way, opening its platform has been overwhelmingly positive. More than 14,000 applications have been created for the site, which in turn has increased its attractiveness to current and potential members.MySpace isn&#39;t alone in following Facebook&#39;s lead, as most major social-networking site operators have decided to open their platforms to external developers as well.In addition to the individual developer platforms,&#160;Google unveiled in November its OpenSocial project, which aims to provide a set of common APIs (application programming interfaces) for social-networking operators to adopt, so that applications built with those APIs will work across multiple sites.To make sure that the applications are safe to use, MySpace will test all of them before making them available to its members, Brinkman said.Developers will be able to generate revenue from their applications by placing advertising on their applications&#39; &quot;canvas&quot; pages, where members manage the applications they install. Developers will get to keep 100 percent of the advertising revenue generated on canvas pages, Brinkman said.Developers can choose to run ads from third-party ad providers as long as the ads conform to MySpace policies, such as not containing pornographic content. Moreover, MySpace will let developers run ads from two new ad services that it is beta testing and that it plans to launch at a later date called HyperTargeting and SelfServe, Brinkman said.In addition to the canvas page, applications will also be featured on their own profile pages, where developers will be able to explain in detail what each application does and how it works. Moreover, there will be a gallery where the applications will be listed. Of course, the applications will also appear on the profiles of members who install them and on members&#39; MySpace home pages.MySpace will make available three types of APIs to developers: Google&#39;s OpenSocial APIs with MySpace extensions for building applications in JavaScript and HTML; ActionScript to build Flash applications; and Representational State Transfer (REST) APIs for applications that require server-to-server connections.Applications will be able to make use of data on MySpace profiles, but they will be governed by existing privacy controls that apply to members.The MySpace Developer Platform site will also include documentation, sample code and discussion forums.Also on Tuesday, MySpace will launch a blog geared toward developers , where MySpace staffers will post relevant information and news about the program.&#160;
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One of the most vexing problems in home computing is finding a way for parents to govern their children's use of computers and the Internet. The goal is to keep their children safe from the creepier content and people on the Internet and from spending too much time on the computer.
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As if porn sites and pedophiles in chat rooms weren&#039;t frustrating enough for parents whose children use the Internet, now online postings of amateur video featuring skin and violence are raising concerns. The explosion in online video-sharing sites, where clips of any nature can be easily uploaded for the world to see, has become the latest challenge for parents trying to protect their children and for Web sites coping with obscene submittals.
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Social slump If all goes according to plan then MySpace will finally open its platform to developers on Tuesday, in keeping with plans announced last October. Details are vague but the youf social networking arm of Rupert Murdoch's media empire has at least confirmed the platform will support Google's OpenSocial interface.â¦
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How cool am I! I've only got my own page on MySpace!  And a hundred and eighty four friends! Just in case you're not a clued up cyber-chick like me, MySpace.com is the website which allows you to create your own web page.
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InfoWorld - MySpace will open the doors of its developer Web site on Tuesday and make available there the necessaryÂ tools to build applications for the world's most popular social-networking site.
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Under mounting pressure from law enforcement and parents, MySpace agreed Monday to take steps to protect youngsters from online sexual predators and bullies, including searching for ways to better verify users' ages.
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Rains down spam, opens door to users accounts A handful of enterprising people - at least one of them a teen - has devised a Javascript that allows its owner to temporarily access the browser's MySpace account, according to a security professional who was among the first to publicly write about the service.â¦
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If you're waiting to add Cassie as one of your MySpace.com friends, just be patient. There are a few million people ahead of you.
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MySpace profile:   No, just Facebook, and that only since I've been done with school - profiles take up too much time for someone who intends to finish homework.    What song is in your MySpace profile?    N/A.
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Financial types don't like teenage girls, apparently Newswire and financial data service Reuters is to dip another finger in Web 2.0 waters by setting up its own version of MySpace. But the Reuters site will be targeted at City traders rather than US teenagers.â¦
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Tell Cisco what you really think So much of the Web 2.0/Participation Age garbage arrives with false pretenses of goodwill. Give everyone a MySpace page and our collective spirit will fill the world with creativity and freshness. Gwana-gwana.â¦