Interview With Jim Benedetto of MySpace

Posted by Nick O'Neill on June 27th, 2008 4:10 PM

This afternoon I had the opportunity to speak with Jim Benedetto, the Senior Vice President of Technology over at MySpace. We discussed the new MySpace Data Availability which launched yesterday. Jim and I discussed MySpace’s position in relation to competing platforms as well as some of the underlying technical issues pertaining to the new service.

The podcast was probably one of the shortest one ever since Jim was very concise in responding to my questions. Earlier I asked people on Twitter, Plurk and Facebook what questions they would like to have answered and most of them were responded to. One reader asked if the iPhone works with the new MySpace Data Availability service.

While I assumed that the service works with pretty much any web-based technology, Jim confirmed that the new service does indeed work with iPhones. Does this mean we’ll soon see a number of mobile implementations? Probably but I’m not so sure how soon we’ll see this being implemented. I’ve already spoken with a number of mobile services who said that they plan to build software around the new services being offered by Facebook and MySpace.

Check out my interview to with Jim to learn more about the new Data Availability service.

Interview with Jim Benedetto, MySpace [10:57m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

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