Myspace Announces Data Availability Initiative
by Josh Patterson ~ May 9th, 2008. Filed under: Data Portability.Yesterday Myspace announced the latest version of their opensocial specs, along with their intentions to support “data availability” (Ben Metcalf, Christian Scholz, and VentureBeat). The major focus of this initiative is data sharing between their launch partners Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and Photobucket, although more partners may be added later. From the press release:
“MySpace … will be allowing users to dynamically share the content and data of their choosing including: (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks. Integration of the Data Availability project will roll to MySpace users and participating Websites in the coming weeks.”
MySpace’s full press release is on Alley Insider. DataPortability’s press release is here.