What does it mean that MySpace is launching its own platform for applications?

Facebook will have to work harder at keeping developers.

I conducted an informal poll of the Facebook developer community a while ago. Facebook has a leg up- developers are snobs and aesthetes (and we aren’t ashamed of it). Facebook is better than MySpace. But numbers can change a person’s taste. Especially since MySpace will make it easier to monetize through traditional ad networks by having less walls, more banner sizes, and more advertising options.

That means we’ll see a bigger and better team on Facebook working with developers and creating more options to share the wealth.

The more platforms, the better.