Use Flex to Trick out your MySpace Page

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I don’t spend a lot of time on MySpace anymore but I noticed Ciara was messing with her profile and there was a little WYSIWYG editor over on the left hand side. Since I spend a lot of time with Flex applications it was pretty easy to see that they were using Flex for their new profile editor and James Ward’s Is it Flex confirmed it.

The application is kind of boring. I mean compared to the trainwreck that most of MySpace seems to be it’s a welcome improvement but it doesn’t really blend with the rest of the MySpace world. I’m bummed they didn’t do any theming or customization (Thermo would be a good fit here, I think). They used basic components and it doesn’t seem to flow with the profile you’re editing. But it does make it really, really easy to edit your profile and the stock themes they come with are a big help. It’s great to see MySpace using Flex.

Note: I’m not sure how long this has been around. So this may not be news. It’s hard to search for anything about a MySpace theme editor because of all the other sites out there that offer the same thing.

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  • thinman

    It’s been around for a little while, but what’s just as interesting is that ALL of the user interaction experiences are based on the Flash platform. Right-click the photo thingy. Besides ALL the audio and video stuff is Flash.

    I have a client (long in arrears, but THAT’s another story), who swears they live and die by MySpace. So I said, let’s clean it up, tighten it up, polish and pizazz it. Made an entire microsite for them with nested customer interaction widgets, events widgets, etc. Copy n paste code. But no go. Soon, I’m just gonna make the WHOLE thing in Flex. Once I get my mind around the whole runtime design switching thing…