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Max Newbould (signal_loss) popped in the channel today. He’s parading around Asia hyping up the MySpace Development Platform trying to get more developers, talk about the platform, etc.

It didn’t take me long to emphasize the slow development, problems, and qualms that I was having with the developement platform these last few weeks. I partly think it’s because Max is away and not as active in the community since he’s off in Asia. It started out fairly strong hence my disappointment.

Anyway, to the juicy stuff! I asked Max to provide a straight answer for the virality API, particularly requestSendMessage() (Notifications) and he stated “April 30th, unless something goes terribly wrong.”

I complained about adjustHeight(), he stated he was drafting an email to his team at the same time. Expect a fix soon hopefully.

Max stated invite sending is a good month away, so no real ETA on it–apparently a separate team is working on it.

I suggested an analytics service for us as it’s been very helpful on hi5.com, he expressed some interest in it–hopefully it made his email.

Max said he has been spending sometime additionally working on a better client caching system. Anyway, hopefully Max gives his team a swift kick in the ass tomorrow or the next day all the way from Asia. To keep up with what’s happening, Max writes actively on his blog on his MySpace profile at:

http://myspace.com/signalloss

Max stated that he was planning on taking Friday off (today!) but said he may pop in the channel, get his team ready:

signal_loss: ok, im off
signal_loss: flying back to seattle
signal_loss: take care all