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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.
Chris DeWolfe, MySpace Co-Founder and CEO, said:
“We are pioneering a new way for the global community to integrate their social community experiences Web wide. Today MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Internet. You [Your] personal online social profile will become your Internet address. Socially dynamic Web destinations should be portable.”
The service will enable users to share publicly available basic profile information, MySpace photos, MySpace TV videos, and friend networks. Users will be able to manage how their content and data is spread to third-party sites. They can determine which third party sites can access their information.
MySpace plans to make the project more specific as they develop it. The social network says their main objective in the deal is a more “open and social Internet.”
DeWolfe talks about being open to other sites as well.
“We're happy to work with Facebook if they want to join up with us on this project. That goes for any other site out there as well.”
MySpace also announced that it has joined the Data Portability Workgroup. Back in January, several companies including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Digg joined the workgroup, which is the main effort behind easily transferring data to multiple sites.
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