Friendster to Support Applications Brought by Facebook Developers

Friendster, a social network Web site, has announced that as part of the Friendster Developer Program, it has deployed support for the Facebook (News - Alert) Platform.

 

Friendster is the first major social network and social Web site to deploy both the OpenSocial and Facebook de facto industry standards for the benefit of Friendster users and the developer community. Now, thousands of developers can introduce the applications and features they've built on the Facebook Platform to Friendster's 80 million users around the world.

 

Various companies and individual developers can now easily use the Facebook Platform, OpenSocial APIs or Friendster-developed APIs to deploy their applications on Friendster with support of developer applications on Facebook and OpenSocial support.

 

Friendster Developer Program now provides an easy way for developers to reach the largest group of internet users on a single social network in Asia, as over 60 million of its 80 million users are from the continent.

 

Providing hundreds of new and interesting features to use and share, the developer applications on the   Friendster network enrich the user experience. These features include music, games, 3-D avatars, virtual worlds and experiences, group chat, videos, photos, sports, TV shows, entertainment, and news and information.

 

These applications provide another way to the users for connecting with friends by using and recommending new applications.

 

Under the Friendster Developer Program, a large number of new, innovative features are introduced by Friendster to its user base that were created externally by developers. Friendster began this program as a platform for third-party developers to extend their reach and distribution.

 

David Jones, vice president of global marketing for Friendster, said that its support of both the Facebook and OpenSocial platforms is a big win for business and individual developers, as well as for Friendster users.

 

Jones noted that for the developers that have invested resources in developing and launching a Facebook app, Friendster has now made it very easy for them to 'port' these applications to Friendster, enabling them to tap into Friendster's 80 million users.

 

In addition, the Web 2.0 companies that have developed apps using Facebook and OpenSocial APIs now have the flexibility to choose between approaches when launching applications on Friendster.