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Portable Data on MySpace, Facebook, Yahoo!, Twitter, and More
Imagine making a change to your profile on MySpace and having it automagically update on the other social website communities to which you belong. According to an announcement made by MySpace yesterday, this functionality will be available in a matter of weeks. The initiative called Data Availability will enable social networkers to share not only profile data between websites, but content such as photos and videos as well. So far Twitter, eBay, PhotoBucket, and Yahoo! have all signed up to participate and partner in the project.
Not to be outdone, Facebook announced today that it will be releasing a similar functionality called Facebook Connect which will also enable members to share their data, friends lists, and content with other websites. Although no partnering websites have been announced, it is rumored that the social news site Digg may be an inaugural partner.
MySpace, Facebook, and Yahoo! all joined the Data Portability Workgroup (DPW) earlier this year whose mission it is to facilitate just this type interoperability between social networks enabling members to access friends and media between all of the social communities to which they belong. For a quick (2 minute) tutorial on what data portability is, check out this video.
