在facebook统治社交游戏的当头，事实上myspace在休闲游戏领域的影响力很容易被忽略。

据escapist magazine的消息，新闻集团旗下的myspace并不这么认为，他们正在追寻更多游戏开发者的认可和支持。日前该网站对外宣称预计有超过三分之一的myspace用户在玩平台上的社交游戏，如果按照1亿myspace计算，那么myspace社交游戏玩家就将超过3000万。

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根据inside social games的描述，目前myspace的分享按钮已经实现跨网站分享功能。按照myspace的说法，除了用户邀请，分享按钮将成为游戏新增用户的主要来源。

With Facebook’s continued world domination, it’s easy to overlook MySpace as a market for casual games. However, the NewsCorp-owned social networking site wants developers to take it seriously, having just announced a number of new viral features that increase gamer appeal and claiming that roughly a third of its 100 million users are playing games on the website.

The site recently rolled out three new viral features: an in-app “sharing” button, an in-game friending API, and an API that allows users to send gifts and invitations to one another. According to Inside Social Games:

The Share on MySpace button has already been available across the web. If you’re on another site, like YouTube, you can share the content – a video, or whatnot – back into your MySpace activity stream. The shared item will include an image and text, and a prominent link back to the source. The new feature, called Share for Games, is intended to provide similar functionality from within an app: you can share content from an app directly into the stream and get users clicking through that way.

According to MySpace, the share button is responsible for ten to twenty percent of new app installs on user pages. This mean that, aside from direct invitations, the share button is the largest source of new players for games on the site.

It’s a little surreal to read about how MySpace is now trying to hold onto the Number Two position in the social networking scene. Many of my friends who had (and subsequently de-activated)

accounts on the site have told me stories about how it always felt like MySpace was playing catch-up with Facebook when it came to design and technology. Seeing as how the site has just released game features that aren’t exactly brand new on the Web, it seems like my friends’ allegations were spot-on.（source：escapist magazine）