I had certainly heard the buzz about myspace's plan to release an API similar to the Facebook developer's platform, but I had not expected to find this little box on my home page when I signed in today:

Apparently, this new feature was released yesterday but was immediately broken and thus was only seen by a small percentage of users. I find it interesting that a site that continues to boast about being the largest social networking site around, and with the numbers to prove it, still feels the need to play copycat. Some people may say that it is smart for MySpace to release such functionality in response to all the Facebook buzz, and I certainly don't disagree that they should have responded with something. But this, quite frankly, is a little ridiculous. Forget the fact that many Facebook converts that i know find the news feed and status updates to be the most annoying aspect of Facebook, this particular feature in its MySpace iteration is completely irrelevant, at least so far.