MySpace is to allow its users to share their public profiles and data directly on other sites, writes ENN. Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter have already signed up to the so-called data availability initiative. Users will be able to have single updates appear automatically across a number of sites. Users will also be able to […]
MySpace is to allow its users to share their public profiles and data directly on other sites, writes ENN. Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter have already signed up to the so-called data availability initiative. Users will be able to have single updates appear automatically across a number of sites. Users will also be able to have their MySpace content directly linked to their Yahoo! Instant Messenger service.
Last year MySpace also signed up for the Google-led OpenSocial project which aims to build a common framework for social networking applications to run.
Facebook is also preparing to open up its profiles with the coming launch of Facebook Connect. In a similar vein to MySpace this will allow users to “connect” their public profiles from other sites with their Facebook profile. The announcement was followed by news that Facebook had borrowed $100m to fund new servers and data centres. Facebook remains the UK’s most popular social networking site with 14.35m UK unique users during April (up 7.2% from the previous month).
Brand Republic: http://www.brandrepublic.com, 09/05/2008
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com
