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data portability MySpace has announced in the month of May that they are working on data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The purpose of this project called MySpace “Data Availability” was to allow users to have a single profile across all major Social Media sites. The users will be required to make changes to their profile at one place, and it will seamlessly be updates at other sites.

Yesterday, MySpace Developer Team announced the arrival of Data Portability. They have made their APIs available for external use and called upon the other sites to make use of it to enable their users to leverage the power of their social data outside of the MySpace.com domain. It has been said that with its help, data can now be available to MySpace users no matter where they go on the Internet.

MySpace said…

We’ve also taken steps to ensure that none of this new functionality compromises any of our user’s privacy or security.   You will find a new 3rd party site privacy dashboard located in the account settings of your MySpace profile. Just look under Linked Sites to view it.  From here users can manage the relationship between their data and individual 3rd party sites.   Any revocation of access to data from within MySpace takes place immediately at the external site as well.   This ensures users won’t have their data floating around the internet without them being aware of it.