Great video on F8 posted by Venturebeat.

SocialMedia is holding our first OpenSocial developer event called “OpenThread” on August 15th, 5pm - 8pm at SocialMedia’s SF office. The event will feature an hour and a half of discussion on developing on OpenSocial (short tutorial, developer panel, hosting discussion) followed by an “OpenBar”.

We’re limiting this to 150 developers due to space constraints, so we require all developers to sign up ahead of time. It’s a great event to network and learn more about if you’re missing out on OpenSocial.

Itinerary:

5:00 - 5:30 Sign In
5:30 - 5:45 Introduction and Brief History of MySpace / OpenSocial
5:45 - 6:00 Tutorial on building your first app (Hello World!) - MySpace demo
6:00 - 6:45 Panel with MySpace and other OpenSocial developers (How did you start?, What are the pros and cons?) - Linus Liang (CLZ Concepts), David King (Lil Green Patch), Kenneth Walton (Klicknation)
6:45 - 7:00 Application Hosting
7:00 - 8:00 Open Bar

Please RSVP by filling out the form below. Check this page for any updates about the program. Also, join the FB MySpace App developer group, specifically intended for cross platform devs.

For many of you, and even me, it seems like when we talk about social applications, we’re talking about the Facebook platform. Facebook has been around the longest and done a great job rolling out new features. However, MySpace is growing into a great complementary platform, with the added advantage that it’s an OpenSocial container. MySpace can currently monetize at the same rates as majority of Facebook inventory, as those with apps on both platforms already know.

Since cross development time is expensive for small groups of developers, we’ll be putting together some more resources on how to develop as well as user’s experiences over the next couple of months.

Moreover, as the web continues to “digest” social networking, there will be many more platforms where developers can create a living from applications. We’ll keep you posted.