MySpace on Windows Mobile Phones via Silverlight

By Contributor Wireless and Mobile News on March 31, 2009 11:16 AM

MySpace will support Microsoft Windows Mobile and Microsoft Silverlight. The new MySpace mobile application, available this summer, will run on Windows phones and use Silverlight, Microsoft's free browser plug-in.

The companies are in close collaboration to offer a MySpace for Windows Mobile app which will be available for download later this summer. The application integrates MySpace's main social features and functionality with the Windows operating system to provide access to the community in a way that's familiar to the Windows Mobile user.

The MySpace application will be available on Windows Mobile 6.1 phones later this summer and then in the fall of 2009 through the Windows Marketplace for Mobile, directly through phones, and the Web. LG will preload the MySpace application on their Windows phones, making it even easier than ever for users to gain real-time access to their global MySpace network. The new Windows phones are expected to be available in the second half of 2009.

The introduction of Silverlight into the MySpace Open Platform empowers MySpace developers with more freedom and flexibility to design OpenSocial applications using the tools and technology they want. Silverlight and the MySpace Open Platform will enable developers to rapidly create and deliver sophisticated MySpace applications with a custom look and feel through the flexible skinning of controls and data.

Microsoft and MySpace have released an Open Source kit that makes it easy to develop OpenSocial applications using Silverlight that run on the MySpace Open Platform. To learn about this kit and how designers and developers can use it to create interactive, engaging apps on MySpace, please visit http://www.myspace.com/silverlightonmyspace, and read the blog post about MySpace's support of Silverlight at developer.myspace.com.