LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MySpace, the world’s most popular social network, alongside Yahoo!, eBay, Photobucket, and Twitter, today announced the launch of the MySpace ‘Data Availability’ initiative, a ground-breaking offering to empower the global MySpace community to share their public profile data to websites of their choice throughout the Internet. Today’s announcement throws open the doors to traditionally closed networks by putting users in the driver’s seat of their data and Web identity. The launch of the Data Availability initiative marks the first time that a social Website has enabled its community to dynamically share public profile information with other sites.
It didn't take more than 2 days for facebook to answer on this MySpace, Yahoo, Photobucket and Twitter initiative to present plans for Data Portability in a near future.
RedWriteWeb say on their blog about Facebooks initiative the following:
Facebook says they're "committed to enabling people to communicate and stay connected wherever they go" and looks to execute on this statement with Facebook Connect. The Facebook Connect platform will essentially be a new version of their API that was released back in May 2007. The new API will give developers the opportunity to develop tools that will allow users to port their connections, privacy settings, and networks from their Facebook account to other third party websites. Essentially, third party websites will have access to features that have only been available to third party applications on Facebook itself.
Digg looks like it will be the first launch partner for the platform.
This will doubtless push social Networks usage even more and make them more attractive to end users.
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