Crashing the MySpace Developers Party
Had a lovely evening with Danny Somekh at The Hospital Club. I’m not one for members clubs but this one is pretty lush and is very much geared around the creative and new media industries. We successfully managed to gatecrash the MySpace application developer platform launch party which was going on downstairs. It was after the main speakers had finished so we didn’t catch any of the presentation. But we did get to have a quick play around with the platform itself on some laptops at the back of the room. It has a neat little console that allows you to check the code you’ve just written in real time. You have access to the usual stuff such as friends list and messaging and the like and it seems to be a fairly standard ECMA Script language.
Most of the people there were application developers who’ve already developed apps for Facebook and have ported their work over to MySpace using the OpenSocial API. Looking around the event there were a lot of people who oddly very much looked like Chris DeWolfe, CEO of MySpace. Five years ago an event like this would be held in a function room of a city pub and the vast majority of people would be obese hairy men swilling real ale. These days they are held in exclusive members clubs filled with young chaps with Tony & Guy hair cuts, drinking trendy Czech beer (in bottles!) with a handful of attractive young girls hanging off every jocular word. The real question is, are geeks getting hipper or are hipsters getting geekier?