A link has surfaced on the web which shows some of the functions that the MySpace API might make available.

The fact that MySpace looks to be supporting access to their API via SOAP in addition to the REST style that Facebook provides is very promising. It shows that they have been giving some serious thought about how to provide a better API than what Facebook has, rather than just coming out with a simple copycat platform.

There seems to be new social networks popping up all over the place since the recent success of Facebook. Both Yahoo and Google are rumored to be working on their own projects. I find it hard to believe that these networks will ever have a chance at coming close to the popularity that MySpace and Facebook currently enjoy.

These new services will have to find users who have yet to discover or decide on a social network, or they will have to entice people to leave their current network.

I have posted a new tutorial that extends my earlier Facebook related tutorial to create a simple Flex-based Facebook photo browser.

After following the steps laid out in the first tutorial, all you will need to do is add a few lines of code to the MXML file.

Check it out at Building a Flex-based Facebook Photo Browser.

I have posted a new tutorial on Building Facebook Applications with Flex.

This tutorial uses the ActionScript 3 Facebook Library provided by Jason Crist and Chris Hill.

If you are working with the Official Facebook PHP Library you may have noticed the lack of photo management functions provided in version 1.

Luckily Jeremy Blanchard has posted some PHP code that adds this functionality. His extension to the Official Facebook PHP Library allows you to create photo albums and upload photos.

See his blog entry Uploading Photos within Facebook Apps for instructions on how to use it.