MySpace Continues Commitment to Mobile Social Web by Announcing
Support for Palm and Nokia Smart Devices
MySpace, the world’s leading social portal, today announced the launch this week
of a new, more integrated and optimized mobile Website for the 20
million worldwide members accessing its mobile website every month. Also
at the conference, MySpace reinforced its continued commitment to the
mobile social Web with plans to develop new applications for Nokia in
their S60 web runtime environment and Palm’s new webOS, first available
on the Palm Pre. With this announcement MySpace furthers its leadership
in mobile as it will be the only social network with applications
supported on all smartphone platforms currently active in mobile social
networking: iPhone, Google Android, Sidekick, Nokia, Palm and BlackBerry.
“We want our users to be able to access MySpace from any device,” said
John Faith, vice president and general manager of MySpace Mobile. "We
are committed to building apps for platforms we feel are groundbreaking
to offer our users the best possible on-the-go MySpace experience.”
This week, MySpace will be launching an updated version of the MySpace
Mobile Website (m.myspace.com / wap.myspace.com), extending the
company’s global site redesign to its popular mobile destination. The
new mobile Website further enhances the look and feel of MySpace on
mobile, making it even more consistent with the popular online MySpace
experience. New user interface elements have been optimized for devices
with screen sizes 176 pixels wide (and larger). It features the familiar
“MySpace blue” color scheme and includes the ability to configure email
photo upload. The redesign also has been built upon a fully updated
architecture, which will allow the mobile MySpace experience to scale
rapidly as more users discover m.myspace.com. The new mobile Website is
supported in 13 languages and localized for 29 countries.
MySpace will develop fully integrated applications for both Palm’s new
webOS and Nokia in their S60 web runtime environment. Today’s news comes
on the heels of MySpace’s announced support of The Symbian Foundation,
which the company will join in order to help construct socially relevant
context for developers utilizing the platform.
MySpace’s CEO and co-Founder Chris DeWolfe will present the opening
keynote of the Mobile World Congress on Thursday, February 19, at 9:00
AM local time in Hall 5 - Level 3 — Auditorium 1. In conjunction with
the conference, MySpace is hosting a MySpace Secret Show music concert
in Barcelona featuring two local bands, Fangoria and Nena Daconte, later
that evening.
MySpace has 20 million worldwide unique users on the mobile Web and
applications combined, and more than 7 billion page views (internal
reporting).
About MySpace
MySpace is the world’s leading social portal for connecting people, content, and
culture. MySpace empowers its global community to experience the
Internet through a social lens by integrating personal profiles, photo
sharing, professional and viral videos, blogs, mobile, instant
messaging, and the world’s largest music community. MySpace is the
highest trafficked website in the United States and includes an
international network of more than 30 local community sites throughout
North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Fox
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