MySpace Joins the Data Portability Project
Posted on May 9, 2008 in Technology by Annie
Internet’s largest social networking site MySpace joins the Data Portability Project. Data sharing partners of MySpace are Twitter, Yahoo, eBay and its own subsidiary Photobucket. This new project of MySpace is named as MySpace “Data Availability”.
With the introduction of new features on MySpace will enable its users to easily access their information on other sites. It could be explained with an example: if a user uploads a photo on his MySpace profile it will be automatically updated in other sites using MySpace photographs. Besides photographs other information like basic profile, friend network and MySpace TV videos will also be shared.
Utilizing the MySpace information like profile photo, interests user can create a new account in Twitter. To control the information shared between Twitter and MySpace user is provided with central control panel on the MySpace site. With the help of that control panel you can easily stop the flow of information from MySpace profile to Twitter. In the same way MySpace users can share their information with other partners: Yahoo, eBay and Photobucket.
To present it in different words it can be said that MySpace will be main home for the user information. And it depends on the user to select the information he wants to share with other sites. It can be said that it is slightly similar to Google and Facebook vision of themselves.
According to MySpace in the coming week they will start releasing the new features. Although the data availability of MySpace sounds to be pretty interesting but it might turn out to be a flop show as MySpace users might not use the features of data availability.
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