MySpace Announces Data Availability Project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter
MySpace today announced an initiative called “data accessibility,” the essence of which is to enable users to share their profile information with other social sites that they use.
Currently, only four pilot partners will have access to the “Data Availability” project and the functions should go live in the next few weeks. Other smaller services were also invited to join the project, which they will most likely do in the near future. In partnership with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter, in total, MySpace gives access to more than 150 million Internet users, and 85% of them are US web users.
Data sharing is dynamic, which means that they will be constantly updated. MySpace wants to be the centralized custodian of the social profile (“Central Data Control Panel”). At any time, the user can change or revoke the rights for third parties to access the data, in accordance with the “strict conditions of service provision”. This public profile consists of information: photos, videos, user profiles, and also lists of friends. Changing data in one profile automatically leads to changes on partner sites, by importing data from MySpace. The user can independently update their profile on MySpace and share this information with other sites that he connects to the project. After updating your profile or adding content to MySpace, these updates will be reflected in all services through your profile on MySpace.
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The main goal is to allow users to save their basic personal data on sites such as MySpace and interrupt the current practice of independent, autonomous islands, where every user is disconnected from life. Previously, users could share most of this data using widgets, adding information to other blogs or services. But in this scenario, each site remained as lonely as an island. For example, you can sync friend lists by recommending friends to Twitter to your friends on MySpace, etc. Absolutely logical!
All authentication processes will be processed using OAuth , OpenID is not currently supported, but MySpace is exploring this possibility.
Finally, as part of today's announcements, MySpace also officially joined the DataPortability working group, bringing together almost all the more or less major players of the Social Web, but in fact, little has been done so far for its actual use by users. MySpace is also a partner of Google in the OpenSocial project, but this project will be developed in parallel.
Main question: Will Facebook be part of the project?
“This project is open to any site, for anyone who wants to work with us, so we will be happy to work together with Facebook if they want to team up with us in this project,” says DeWolfe
When Facebook last year opened its developer platform, MySpace began to lose its audience. But Facebook was reluctant to partner with other social projects, only allowing developers to create applications, and only recently opened the function of adding RSS feeds to news partners like Digg and Yelp. A well-known story, when popular blogger Robert Scoble tested a script that exports Facebook contact information to Plaxo’s address book, Facebook temporarily banned his account.
Historically, MySpace has lagged behind Facebook in terms of innovative development. But, of course, this time MySpace will try to do as well as you can imagine today, when things can change overnight.
via The Social Trend
Currently, only four pilot partners will have access to the “Data Availability” project and the functions should go live in the next few weeks. Other smaller services were also invited to join the project, which they will most likely do in the near future. In partnership with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter, in total, MySpace gives access to more than 150 million Internet users, and 85% of them are US web users.
Data sharing is dynamic, which means that they will be constantly updated. MySpace wants to be the centralized custodian of the social profile (“Central Data Control Panel”). At any time, the user can change or revoke the rights for third parties to access the data, in accordance with the “strict conditions of service provision”. This public profile consists of information: photos, videos, user profiles, and also lists of friends. Changing data in one profile automatically leads to changes on partner sites, by importing data from MySpace. The user can independently update their profile on MySpace and share this information with other sites that he connects to the project. After updating your profile or adding content to MySpace, these updates will be reflected in all services through your profile on MySpace.
read more →
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The main goal is to allow users to save their basic personal data on sites such as MySpace and interrupt the current practice of independent, autonomous islands, where every user is disconnected from life. Previously, users could share most of this data using widgets, adding information to other blogs or services. But in this scenario, each site remained as lonely as an island. For example, you can sync friend lists by recommending friends to Twitter to your friends on MySpace, etc. Absolutely logical!
All authentication processes will be processed using OAuth , OpenID is not currently supported, but MySpace is exploring this possibility.
Finally, as part of today's announcements, MySpace also officially joined the DataPortability working group, bringing together almost all the more or less major players of the Social Web, but in fact, little has been done so far for its actual use by users. MySpace is also a partner of Google in the OpenSocial project, but this project will be developed in parallel.
Main question: Will Facebook be part of the project?
“This project is open to any site, for anyone who wants to work with us, so we will be happy to work together with Facebook if they want to team up with us in this project,” says DeWolfe
When Facebook last year opened its developer platform, MySpace began to lose its audience. But Facebook was reluctant to partner with other social projects, only allowing developers to create applications, and only recently opened the function of adding RSS feeds to news partners like Digg and Yelp. A well-known story, when popular blogger Robert Scoble tested a script that exports Facebook contact information to Plaxo’s address book, Facebook temporarily banned his account.
Historically, MySpace has lagged behind Facebook in terms of innovative development. But, of course, this time MySpace will try to do as well as you can imagine today, when things can change overnight.
via The Social Trend
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/25094/
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