If MySpace could help developers promote their applications to get more distribution, activity notifications in friends’ news feeds would be a great way to do it. Last night the company announced that they are rolling out the beta version of "application activities". Currently these application activities will only be viewable to developers until at least "after the holidays".

Once fully rolled out this will give developers on the MySpace platform, much greater promotional visibility. This is excellent news for developers but as Chris, a social application developer states in the MySpace forum, "I want to have my activities code ready to go the instant this goes live on the main site, but also I have a lot of urgent work to get done on other platforms which have much higher traffic."

[via SocialTimes]

The customised MySpace interface, developed with Research in Motion, the company behind the new handsets, gives BlackBerry users the ability to receive updates and send messages in real time, as well as uploading photographs to their profile.

According to figures from the social network, the MySpace mobile site receives more than two million daily unique mobile visits.

The announcement follows the success of the MySpace iPhone application, which, according to MySpace’s figures, received 1.7 million daily unique mobile visits in July.

Travis Katz, managing director of MySpace International commented on how the announcement is the next step in the development of MySpace mobile, giving the social network’s 120 million active users the ability to connect on the go.

The social network launched an application for Android devices, including the T-Mobile G1 mobile phone, launched in the UK at the end of October.

[via Mediaweek]

For all of us out there who obsessively check our MySpace page, there is good news today.

MySpace has signed a deal with the pioneering provider of free-to-end-user Wi-Fi - The Cloud - so that you can access the social networking website on the go from thousands of UK locations.

The Cloud will provide all new and existing MySpace users with free Wi-Fi access to MySpace.com wherever The Cloud's network is available.

And this is, at the moment, in over 7000 UK locations.

Anthony Lukom, Managing Director of MySpace UK commented: "MySpace users want to easily communicate with their friends and discover exciting, relevant content wherever they happen to be".

[via PocketLint]

MySpace and HP have announced plans to integrate HP printing technology across MySpace, including all photo sections.

This will mean MySpace users can print the photo sections, personal profiles, blog entries, comments and messages stored on their MySpace profiles and "share them offline in new and exciting ways".

The first stage of the companies’ collaboration will be an HP-branded print button that enables MySpace users to preview and print photos directly from their MySpace profiles.

[via PocketLint]

The customised MySpace interface, developed with Research in Motion, the company behind the new handsets, gives BlackBerry users the ability to receive updates and send messages in real time, as well as uploading photographs to their profile.

According to figures from the social network, the MySpace mobile site receives more than two million daily unique mobile visits.

The announcement follows the success of the MySpace iPhone application, which, according to MySpace’s figures, received 1.7 million daily unique mobile visits in July.

[via Mediaweek]

Chinese Democracy, the US rock band's first album in 15 years, will not be available to buy until Monday.

But fans can hear the album on the band's MySpace page. They are one of the highest-profile acts to use the site to launch a record.

The band's last record, their covers collection The Spaghetti Incident?, came out in 1993.

Since then, tension among members has led to all the original performers except frontman Axl Rose leaving.

[via BBC NEWS]

MySpace has announced the launch of Profile 2.0, that it says is the next step in the site's global redesign.

The revamps will let users customise the appearance of their profiles using a new drag-and-drop user interface.

"Profile 2.0 is everything users have been asking for", said Tom Anderson, president and co-founder of MySpace.

"You can now make your profile look different to different groups of friends. It gives users the privacy and customization they want."

The key features included in Profile 2.0 are drag and drop modules to create new profile layouts, the option for users to display certain info on their profile to chosen groups of friends and 50 new profile styles and themes. Perhaps learning from rival Facebook's new look, that proved unpopular with some users, the Profile 2.0 is very much an opt-in option - with the choice to return to the old look at any point.

[via Pocket Lint]