
Picnik: Once you sign up for a Picnik account and add it to your profile, you can edit photos, create a collage, or make greeting cards. News Merger gives you your quick news fix. Once you pick the feeds you want to track, you can modify the design of your widget and place it on your MySpace profile. You can even access major sports news from the leagues' respective Web sites. Those feeds range from Reuters news to CNET News to the top 25 downloads on iTunes. When you access the app, you have the option of adding prominent news feeds to your profile, so you can always be kept abreast about what's going on in the world. News Merger: News Merger is a must-have for any news junkie on MySpace. iTwitter gives you a variety of customization options. Once you figure out what you want, you'll find your fully customized iTwitter widget displayed in your profile. You can pick how many tweets to display at a time, choose your username, font, and background colors, and you can even decide if you want to display your avatar. ITwitter: iTwitter displays your Twitter updates on your MySpace profile. GoMix lets you mix songs to fit your musical taste. You can then share your mix with other MySpace users. After you're done mixing the song, you can listen to your newly created track to see how you did at improving it. If you don't like the way the guitar sounds and you want to get rid of it, you can. So if you want to ditch the vocals in one section of the song, go for it. Once you pick the song you want to check out, GoMix lets you mix it any way you see fit. You've probably never heard of most of the tracks, but they all have a nice beat. It lets you pick from a few dozen tracks and listen to a song. Flixster lets you rate movies and take quizzes. The app even lets you play games, take quizzes, and share your results with friends. Just like the site (and its Facebook counterpart), the app allows you to rate movies, see what your Flixster friends are up to, and determine what movies you'd like based on your ratings. Family Tree lets you connect with your loved ones.įlixster: If you're a film fan and you already love Flixster, the Flixster app for MySpace is for you. The app even has a family news feed, so you can be kept abreast of what's going on in each other's lives. It does that by analyzing your friends list to see if there are any matches you might have missed. The app's best feature is the option to see which people might be in your family. Once complete, you can input your relationship to those people, and the app will create a family tree. It then sends confirmation requests to make sure that they're really family members.

When you access it, the app lists all your MySpace friends and asks you to find family members. Find the right photo chunks with Stewie's help.įamily Tree: Like its Facebook counterpart, Family Tree is a really great app. The game is timed, so you can play with friends and see who is the superior searcher. At first glance, it seems like a simple game, but you'll quickly realize that it's difficult and fun. Simply look at a picture from one of your favorite scenes from the television show Family Guy, and try to find the different areas on the picture that match the blocks to the right of the image. Causes is a great app that makes you feel better about yourself.įamily Guy Picture Hunt: The Family Guy Picture Hunt might not be as useful as some of the other apps in this roundup, but it's extremely fun.

You can donate to the cause and post bulletins on MySpace, so all your friends know what you're supporting. From animal rights to protecting children, you can join any cause and try to increase its awareness. Apps developed for Facebook tend to get more attention in the social-networking space, but these 10, ranging from music- to game-centric, are all worth trying out.Ĭauses: Like its Facebook counterpart, Causes is one of the best apps in this roundup for one reason: it helps you help others.Īfter you sign up, the app lets you pick a "cause" about which you care. It's a problem, but MySpace does have at least a few things going for it. The social network announced on Tuesday that it has been forced to reduce its workforce by 30 percent amid a decline in advertising revenue and outside pressure from competitors.
