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MySpace announced yesterday that it is allowing its users to share content from their profiles with any other Web site. This is the first effort of MySpace to support the data portability movement. Up to this point, social networks such as MySpace have strictly enforced a “walled garden” approach in which users were essentially locked into their site.
MySpace has signed agreements with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter thus far. In the next several weeks, MySpace users will have the ability to add their MySpace data to those sites by simply clicking a button.
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Posted by TheCredence on Friday, May 9th, 2008
EBay and Craigslist are at odds regarding the competition in the online classifieds market. Ebay purchased 28 percent of Craigslist back in 2004 from an unnamed former executive who solicited buyers, but hostility between the two companies has risen since then.
According to eBay’s complaint, which was made public this week, Craigslist considers eBay’s new site Kijiji a competitive activity that conflicts with eBay’s shareholder rights into Craigslist.
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Posted by TheCredence on Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Yahoo Inc. is planning to make its Web site more of a social gathering by hosting applications from other online services. This effort is part of a plan to increase its advertising opportunities.
Yahoo is seemingly following the same open platform idea that Google and social networks Facebook and MySpace have already adopted.
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Posted by TheCredence on Monday, April 28th, 2008
A Texas woman is suing Blockbuster claiming they transmitted her personal information to Facebook through the website’s Beacon marketing program. Cathryn Harris of Dallas County, Texas, says Beacon received information through computer tracking programs without her permission.
Harris filed her complaint in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas on April 9. She claims Blockbuster violated the Video Privacy Protection Act on the basis that it allowed Facebook to get information on her movie renting and buying habits.
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Posted by TheCredence on Friday, April 18th, 2008
Microsoft’s Live Search Maps has a new system that has information about side streets. Also, Inrix just introduced a traffic alert system across the U.S. Together; the two companies will help drivers avoid heavy traffic and delays.
"ClearFlow," Microsoft’s traffic system, has sensors that take combined information about highways and side streets to help the driver know which routes and highways are best for them to take.
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Posted by TheCredence on Friday, April 11th, 2008
