In the coming weeks, MySpace will open the doors of its traditionally closed network, putting users in the driver's seat in terms of sharing user-generated content throughout the Internet.
A new service called "Data Availability" will allow MySpace users to share their public profile data with other Web sites like Yahoo!, Twitter, eBay, and Photobucket and exercise a degree of control over what information is to be shared, as also, with whom. Instead of updating information on every site, MySpace users will be able to update their profile in one place and share that information with other sites. For this, MySpace will be rolling-out a centralized location within the site that allows users manage how their content/data is made available to third-party Web sites.
MySpace "Data Availability" complements Yahoo!'s recently-announced Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS). On Yahoo!, the new service would display MySpace default photos, interests, and favorite music to the users' Messenger contacts directly in the IM client; while in case of Photobucket users, they would be able to have a single view of their photos across multiple services, as well as opt to display their MySpace profile data in their Photobucket albums.
Meanwhile, this move by MySpace is part of a Web-wide move to adopt open standards. In June last year, five companies including Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! formed the 'OpenID Coalition' to create a single common username and password for netizens across the Internet. Google, Yahoo!, and MySpace announced in March creation of the 'OpenSocial Foundation' to develop a common coding standard for social networking applications that work across the Web.
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