I pointed out in an earlier article (http://m4th.com/Articles/Article.php?Article-Title=Anatomy-of-a-Successful-Social-Network) that MySpace owes much of its success to the countless choices it offers to its users. Over the past couple of months, however, MySpace has turned greedy. Rupert Murdoch feels that online widgets are a zero-sum game; in other words, widget companies make profit at the expense of MySpace. This couldn't be further from the truth; the fact is that widgets complement MySpace by giving its users the choice to decorate their pages anyway they want. By restricting access to these widgets, MySpace will not only frustrate the users but also generate unprecedented negative publicity. - Jawad Shuaib
It was bound to happen. All the known ones will probably have to pay some sort of a toll. I wonder if the community will care enough to fight back?
Fox is short-sighted, non-technical, and greedy. They had to buy a start-up for over half a billion dollars precisely because they can't develop software themselves.
Some other company just needs to harness the third party sites and build a the big ecosystem MySpace is neglecting to build.
It would be stupid for myspace to do it, they would piss off a lot of there most active users. Kind off makes sense for things like revver where myspace give there own competitive offering. Who knows they might do something stupid and give an advantage to other social networks.