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Date:
2008-05-09
Time: 11:21:54
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Social networking site MySpace is to let its
users automatically transfer their profile
information to other popular websites.
Users of social networks spend a lot of time
adding pictures, videos, friends and other
material to their profile pages.
It then takes an equal amount of time to
customise profile pages on different
websites.
MySpace's 'data availability' project will
allow users to share such information with
[censored], eBay, Photobucket and Twitter
simply by using an application installed on
those companies' websites.
It said it is also open to working with
Facebook on such a scheme.
MySpace will be the "engine" for the data,
allowing members to synchronise updates
across as many websites as they wish or
remove information whenever they desire.
"The main thing MySpace gets out of this is
we are able to promote more open and social
Internet," said MySpace chief executive Chris
DeWolfe.
"We believe that the more open and the more
social the Internet becomes the better it is
for MySpace."
The move continues a growing trend for
competitor websites to find ways to work
together.
MySpace joined Google late last year in an
"Open Social" initiative aimed at creating
common standards so widget applications can
work in various online communities.
Ben Camm-Jones of Webuser[censored]said that
the development showed the growing nature of
the semantic web, where the linking of data
across the internet can be accomplished more
easily.
He also said that so long as information is
secure when it is first put onto a website
and it is not information that compromises
people's security, the ability to transfer it
around the web would not make it any more
vulnerable.
He told Sky News Online: "The user has got to
be very careful about the information they
put on these sites.
"If you put non-secure information into
MySpace, why are you doing it anyway?"
Source: Skynews. |
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