Hacking MySpace

I am sure a lot of people have heard of the massive success applications brought to Facebook in the past couple of years. Well Myspace recently joined the applications bandwagon and I have been watching it quite closely as web applications interest me, as does Myspace.

Do you enjoy traveling? Do you like sharing your travel tales? Well, this new widget from Travbuddy, a social networking site for travelers, allows you to create a MySpace-compatible widget that shows which countries you’ve visited.

The Creative Director of Fox Interactive Media FIMLabs division, Don Synsetlien, recently left a comment on my MySpace profile showing off a new SpringWidget Christmas tree widget (see below). Don, obviously a funny guy, left the comment “Hack this tree”. Just think, Don’s getting paid big bucks paid to harass struggling writers; some guys just have all the luck!

Despite all the damfangled widgets available today, playing music on your MySpace profile is still one of the best ways of entertaining visitors to your MySpace profile, and helping people understand listening tastes.

The secret that everyone knew about is out in the open. TheSpringBox, now renamed SpringWidgets, has been revealed as Fox Interactive’s widget platform, according to Pete Cashmore from Mashable. The announcement was made at the Widgets Live conference.

Which slideshow widget do you think is most popular on MySpace? I think you’re going to be very surprised by the answer. 

ImageChef allows you to create images for your MySpace profile that incorporate the text of your choice in a predesigned image template.

Kiko is a free online calendar that allows you to create widgets to publicize and share events through your MySpace profile.