MYOP: Comsenz’s Answer to Open Platform

Written by Tangos on July 10, 2008
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Comsenz, the developer of the most used BBS software Discuz!, launched a product called UCenter Home(UCH) in late April which can enable you to build your own SNS. When UCenter Home was launched, we were expecting some kind of open platform solutions from Comsenz. On July 7, Comsenz announced ManYou Open Platform(MYOP), a UCH-based open platform.

To develop apps on MYOP, you need to register a user in MYOP’s website and add a developer app to manage apps you create. After your apps are submitted to and approved by MYOP, they can be run on every UCH-based SNS. Different from Facebook or Xiaonei, UCH-based SNS are distributed. So users of UCH-based SNS will be able to choose apps on MYOP freely, it is not like an add-on system which only site owners can choose what to install and offer to users. But a site owner still has right to manage a whitelist and blacklist for apps.

As we said yesterday, Xiaonei’s developer platform has many restrictions, and it is not open enough. However, MYOP is a quite open platform. According to its terms of service, generally you can develop any kind of application, as long as your app does not violate any applicable laws, regulations, copyrights, and etc. Developers can also monetize apps by adding advertising on their apps pages, and they need not to share those revenues with Comsenz. But apps should not add advertising on user profile page and newsfeed.

Just two months after UCH was launched, over 15,000 site owners have installed UCH to build their own SNS, which in total serve over one million users already. We expect to see more and more niche and vertical SNS appear in China, just as what you see for online forum in China. Therefore, MYOP has big potential to become a very important open platform for developers, let’s see what will happen three month later.

3 Responses to “MYOP: Comsenz’s Answer to Open Platform”

  1. The Controversey over Xiaonei’s Not-So-Open Platform on July 11th, 2008 3:52 pm

    [...] Chinese app developers haven’t reacted positively to the policies announced by social network Xiaonei. The much-anticipated opening of the popular campus-focused SNS to third party developers turned out to be a profound disappointment for most of them, as Tangos Chan explains in his post on the topic over at China Web 2.0 Review. Tangos’s most recent post contrasts Xiaonei’s approach with the far less restrictive policies of Comsenz, the company behind the Discuz! software powering most BBSs in China; Comsenz, which recently launched a new software solution to power social networks called UCenter Home , announced a developer-specific companion platform called MYOP allowing developers to build apps which, if approved by Comsenz, can be deployed on any SNS built with UCenter Home. [...]

  2. Charles Frith on July 11th, 2008 9:02 pm

    I talked about some of this stuff a while back on my blog! Good to see some action on it.

    http://www.charlesfrith.com/2008/04/china-20.html

  3. Interview With David Li on China’s Open Platform : China Web2.0 Review on July 20th, 2008 11:58 pm

    [...] This year will be a big year for open platform concept in China, with Xiaonei, Comsenz, 51.com, Taobao launching their open platform. In last week, I have chance to have an interview with David Li, who developed some very popular apps on Facebook platform. So we asked his opinion on open platform of some Chinese websites. [...]

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