We all know what the CEO said. Too bad he is dead wrong. Mashable’s claim that all these widget-darlings are “feeding the MySpace beast” may actually be the other way around. Maybe it is Myspace that is feeding off everyone else, like a giant leech.

Look at MySpace. It is so web 1.0 in its construct it isn’t even funny. Ok, so they have their own video player (copycats), and, oooh, look they even have an embedded flash music player. They have blog functionality, sorta. Otherwise, its a badly constructed mish-mash of crap. What makes it fun? All these flash modules, widgets, flash codes (call them what you will), that everyone and their mother (not skeptic’s though I bet) are making.

Feeding the beast? I think the beast is feeding on everyone else. Without these widgets, without YouTube, MySpace would be nothing. The future of MySpace depends on cool services that plug into them. Just like people pimp their rides, with cool stereos, and every other after-market part that is available to them. It is fine for MySpace to be the aggregator-default for all of this stuff, but for them to publicly put the widget-makers on notice is obviously naive at best.

MySpace should open up an API (a la Facebook and others), embrace the development community at large and all of these other smart people and work together. Otherwise, they are going to find themselves SOL in the near future.

Maybe YouTube should actually turn around and block the ability for anyone to post the videos they so graciously host for all of us on MySpace.

Suddenly it is seeming less and less like MySpace and more like TheirSpace.

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