MySpace Makes Data Portable to Other Web Sites

**NewsDude** · 05-09-2008, 05:10 PM

The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project.
MySpace described the initiative as empowering "the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to Web sites of their choice throughout the Internet." CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe said that "the walls around the garden are coming down" and his company and several partners are pioneering ways for sharing "social experiences Web-wide."
Launch Partners
The partners at the launch were Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter. MySpace said its partners will complement its efforts in a variety of ways. For instance, if a MySpace user has Yahoo Instant Messenger, that user's MySpace default photo, interests and favorite music could be shown through the IM client. MySpace data can also be shown in Yahoo's universal profile or through Yahoo Mail's inbox.
On eBay, profiles can have MySpace data and media, and on Photobucket users can see their photos across various sites and can, if they choose, show their MySpace profile data in Photobucket albums. Twitter profiles can also be populated with MySpace data, blogs and photos.
Information that can be shared includes publicly available basic profile data, photos, videos and friend networks. Users can control what information is shared and with whom. A centralized location on MySpace will provide a kind of control panel, and the initiative will roll out within coming weeks. According to news reports, non-MySpace sites will not store or cache the data, and permission to use the data can be revoked by a MySpace user at any time.
The initiative will make it easier to distribute news like a new job to friends. A MySpace user could update a profile and dynamically share the new information to other sites where his or her data also resides.
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NewsDude Status: *** Elder Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: News Office Posts: 1,295** Spent time on board: 0:05:24 Hours Rep Power: 3	The move toward data portability for denizens of social-networking sites gained more momentum Thursday with MySpace's announcement of its Data Availability project. MySpace described the initiative as empowering "the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to Web sites of their choice throughout the Internet." CEO and cofounder Chris DeWolfe said that "the walls around the garden are coming down" and his company and several partners are pioneering ways for sharing "social experiences Web-wide." Launch Partners The partners at the launch were Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter. MySpace said its partners will complement its efforts in a variety of ways. For instance, if a MySpace user has Yahoo Instant Messenger, that user's MySpace default photo, interests and favorite music could be shown through the IM client. MySpace data can also be shown in Yahoo's universal profile or through Yahoo Mail's inbox. On eBay, profiles can have MySpace data and media, and on Photobucket users can see their photos across various sites and can, if they choose, show their MySpace profile data in Photobucket albums. Twitter profiles can also be populated with MySpace data, blogs and photos. Information that can be shared includes publicly available basic profile data, photos, videos and friend networks. Users can control what information is shared and with whom. A centralized location on MySpace will provide a kind of control panel, and the initiative will roll out within coming weeks. According to news reports, non-MySpace sites will not store or cache the data, and permission to use the data can be revoked by a MySpace user at any time. The initiative will make it easier to distribute news like a new job to friends. A MySpace user could update a profile and dynamically share the new information to other sites where his or her data also resides. Embracing Open Standards The wave... More...