The localized version of MySpace, MySpace India, has been official launched today. MySpace is looking very aggressive in its international expansion plans, especially in the Asia Pacific region with its recent launch in Korea as well. Surprisingly, the “BETA” tag has not been removed from the site yet. Perhaps, it will be removed after the launch party.

The launch will be celebrated with an event at Taj Land’s End Amphitheater in Mumbai and 1,000 MySpace India users will be given an opportunity to see live performances by popular Indian rock bands like Pentagram, Super Fuzz and Them Clones.

In India, MySpace will find Orkut as its biggest competitor unlike Facebook in the U.S. Orkut, in order to dilute the attention of its Indian users from the MySpace launch, has rolled out Orkut applications in India.

MySpace is also looking to rope in Indian developers for the MySpace Developer Platform which allows developers to build and deploy MySpace and OpenSocial applications. For this purpose, the MySpace Developer Platform team will conduct a workshop in Bangalore on April 21, 2008.

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