MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called MySpace "Data Availability" and is an example, MySpace says, of their dedication to playing nice with the rest of the Internet.
A mockup of how the data sharing will look in action with Twitter is shown above. MySpace is essentially making key user data, including (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks, available to partners via their (previousy internal) RESTful API, along with user authentication via OAuth .
MySpace officially joins the DataPortability Project
dataportability.tumblr.comFound 3 days, 8 hours, 1 minute, and 10 seconds agoThe DataPortability Project wishes to welcome MySpace, the Internet's largest social network, as the latest member of the initiative (official Press Release). We are excited that MySpace will join the rest of the community to continue the design, documentation and implementation of a set of best practices ...
MySpace to launch "data availability" - new ways to access its data through third party sites
venturebeat.comFound 3 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes, and 20 seconds agoMySpace is planning to introduce a set of new features that will allow its users to access their data on other sites, it is announcing today. This is pretty interesting, because MySpace seems like it is trying to make itself the center of the web. ...
MySpace Partners with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay on Data "Availability"
readwriteweb.comFound 3 days, 7 hours, 52 minutes, and 47 seconds agoIn a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo! have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now be portable from one site to another. We're immediately wondering why this was a partnership between a handful of big sites instead of a move to truly open to the web in general. According to a first report on TechCrunch , the initiative will begin with user information from MySpace being made available to Yahoo, Twitter and eBay in the next few weeks.
MySpace partners with Yahoo, Twitter and eBay in "data portability" initiative
blogs.zdnet.comFound 3 days, 7 hours, 40 minutes, and 39 seconds agoHaving previously talked the talked when it comes to data portability, MySpace is beginning to walk the walk: announcing its own 'data portability' initiative, supported by partners Yahoo, Twitter and eBay. ...
MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter
news.comFound 3 days, 3 hours, 14 minutes, and 8 seconds agoCo-founder and CEO Chris DeWolfe, Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur, and vice president of technology Jim Benedetto announced the new development in a press call Thursday. DeWolfe called it "an innovative offering to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile content and data ...
MySpace Builds a Bigger Walled Garden
gigaom.comFound 3 days, 8 hours, 18 minutes, and 14 seconds agoMySpace today launched announced a data availability initiative that will allow users to opt in to sharing their MySpace information on a variety of partner sites. However, unlike the easy-to-monetize business of selling hardware, the business of controlling someone's Internet persona and profile doesn't ...
MySpace joins DataPortability, announces first implementation
benmetcalfe.comFound 3 days, 8 hours, 1 minute, and 7 seconds agoAs you will know, I've been working with MySpace for a number of months on a number of initiatives to help them evolve into a far more open platform. Following on from the launch of the developer platform and REST APIs, I'm really excited to announce that MySpace has joined the DataPortability Initiative ...
Google Absent from MySpace Data Portability Initiative
eweek.comFound 3 days, 2 hours, 49 minutes, and 7 seconds agoMySpace's technology chief says Google, or any company, can join its Data Availability program at any time.... SpamTitan - Virtual Email Appliance 99% Spam Detection, Kaspersky AV, Anti phishing, $550 for 100 users. ...
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Allowing users to post to Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket is a leap for social networks accused of locking user data behind the wall....
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biz.yahoo.com
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bits.blogs.nytimes.com
Amid all the initiatives in which Internet companies are supposed to make friends with each otherâ"such as Facebook's Platform and Google's rival OpenSocial initiativeâ"the announcement today by MySpace may well be the most useful to ordinary people and thus the most important. The first problem it ...
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alleyinsider.com
MySpace has officially unveiled a program (press release) that will allow users to share MySpace photos, TV networks, and friend networks with Yahoo! See an example of how it works at the end of the post. They also said that this program marks the beginning of MySpace joining the DataPortability project, ...
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blogs.siliconvalley.com
A couple of developments worth noting today on the social networking front:
* MySpace made a move toward dissolving some of the barriers that force peripatetic Web wanderers to maintain separate pieces of their identities scattered and duplicated across various sites. The social network announced a "Data Availability" initiative that will allow MySpace users to share and sync profile information and content across partner sites -- starting with Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket, but eventually open to any sites that wish to participate.
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scripting.wordpress.com
Twitter is still my mainstay in microblogging, but I'm using FriendFeed more, and today Pownce removed an important limit that will make it useful in a way that neither Twitter or FriendFeed are. And because all three have APIs and excellent support for RSS, the chances to combine their strengths makes it possible for each to specialize.
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mathewingram.com
I can appreciate that there's a good reason for all the buzz on Techmeme about MySpace hooking up with Yahoo, eBay and Twitter as part of the Data Portability project. Data portability and open standards are a great thing, and it's nice to see some movement on that front after all of the announcements ...
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identitywoman.net
Clearly there is lots to talk about next week at the Data Sharing Summit Thursday May 15th at the Computer History Museum with the MySpace Data Avaliability initiative.
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searchviews.com
, an initiative that pushes for user control over personal data access and use by other applications, open source solutions, and bottom-up distribution solutions for said data. From the official DataPortability blog :
"MySpace joins other existing corporate members such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, SixApart, and Digg.
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dailywireless.org
MySpace has embraced data portability, and partnered With Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter , says TechCrunch. MySpace is announcing data portability standards today , along with data sharing partnerships in a project called MySpace "Data Availability".
The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and not have it be locked up in an island. Previously users could turn much of this data into widgets and add them to third party sites. But that doesn't bridge the gap between independent, autonomous websites, MySpace says.
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rossdawsonblog.com
MySpace has just announced its Data Availability program, which includes adoption of a range of DataPortability standards, and data sharing with Ebay, Yahoo, and Twitter. Detailed coverage of this at TechCrunch , ReadWriteWeb , VentureBeat , and many others (see Techmeme) . At the same time, MySpace has joined Google, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Digg and others on the DataPortability project. DataPortability notes :
While the participation and endorsement of large vendors such as MySpace in the DataPortability project is a key part of our overall goals of industry wide user-centric data portability, weâd like to re-iterate that the project is an open, grass-roots initiative.
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MySpace Opens Walled Garden, Partners with Yahoo
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b2e.nitle.org
An interoperability agreement has been announced between MySpace, Ebay, Twitter, and Yahoo.
Authentication of users will be via the OAuth protocol .
Although MySpace is a member of the Google-led OpenSocial alliance , but this action is independent of that.
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centernetworks.com
The super big news this afternoon is that MySpace has joined the DataPortability movement in a big way. Here's all you need to know about this announcement:
1. some of the data (photos, videos, text) stored on MySpace will be available to their friend networks which include: Yahoo!, eBay, Twitter, and Photobucket.
2. it's not really data portability, more like data sharing
3. it's live data sharing -- if you change your status from male to female, it's instantly zapped to all of the places you've shared the info.
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web2.commongate.com
Via GigaOM
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theglobeandmail.com
Everyone seems pretty excited about MySpace hooking up with Yahoo, eBay and Twitter as part of the Data Portability project. Data portability and open standards are a great thing, and it's nice to see some movement on that front after all of the announcements and back-slapping that went on about it last year -- followed by very little movement on anyone's part. But after all the party favours are handed out and everyone's finished their MySpace punch , it might be worth noting that this "data portability" initiative still keeps the power very much in MySpace's hands.
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nextfiftyyears.com
Yesterday, Myspace shared news of its wide embrace of data portability and special deals with Yahoo!, eBay, and Twitter to help make digital omnipresence a bit more possible.
And today, Facebook followed suit, announcing "Facebook Connect" , a set of tools, enhancements and standards which will allow consumers to share their identity, content, friends and privacy preferences with other 3rd party Web properties.
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federatedmedia.net
MySpace, Yahoo! Move On Data Portability
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futureexploration.net
An important part of the background to this is that Ben Metcalfe is Director of Engineering for the MySpace Platform. Ben has played an important role in getting MySpace to understand the importance of an open approach (see his thoughts on this announcement ), drawing on his experience in leading the BBCâs developer platform , and his existing involvement with DataPortability. I caught up with Ben recently in San Francisco and we discussed where data portability is going. Absolutely the leadership of the large players is fundamental to driving this.
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cvilleblogs.com
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davidrisley.com
Shared: MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter
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feeds.feedburner.com
One of the most annoying things about maintaining a social network profile is having to manually repost updates from that profile to other services you use. Most of these social networks just don't want to share, doing everything they can to lock their users into their little information silos.
Just as I was tediously retyping a party invitation from Facebook to Google Calendar for the nth time, a ray of hope appeared. MySpace announces their first steps towards data portability. They'll start by letting users optionally pipe their MySpace data to Yahoo, Twitter, eBay, and Photobucket.
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mrtopf.de
As announced here and here MySpace now joined the DataPortability Project and announced their own initiative called "Data Availability" which is about data sharing between their launch partners Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and Photobucket. More partners might be added later. The technical details of Data Availability are not known yet but according to TechCrunch the project will launch in the next few weeks. I hope we will also see then how they actually do it. So far is known that the whole technology is build on top of MySpace's RESTful API they released earlier.
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djtechnocrat.blogspot.com
Via CNET -
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powerblogging.net
clipped from www.techcrunch.com
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thylmann.net
Trusted Authentication - Anywhere during the user's experience that the developer would like to add social context, the user will be able to authenticate and connect their account in a trusted environment. The user will have total control of the permissions granted. This is a proprietary authentication mechanism, but is more streamlined than the existing method and will not require a redirect back to Facebook.
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