MySpace is opening your profile data so that you can share the information across a number of other social sites. A report from Reuters News states:
MySpace social network will let users choose to share their public profile information, such as pictures, videos, and text, across the Web to spread its service beyond its own borders.
The benefit to you as a user of these sites is that you will only have to update your profile on MySpace and it will automatically update it on any of the other social sites that MySpace provides access to. These sites include sites owned by Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and its own Photobucket site.
At present it will operate in a one way direction only – that is, you can update on MySpace and it will update on say twitter, however, if you update on Twitter it will not update on MySpace.
The new approach by MySpace is an attempt to shore up its support as Facebook continues to grow. A statement from MySpace says it all.
The new function, available to any site that signs up, is a move by MySpace to protect its dominance in the social network category from fast-growing Facebook, even as it opens up its system to partners and rivals.
And yes, when they say they are happy to open it up for any other site to join, they include Facebook. It will certainly make life easier for those that have profiles spread around numerous social networking sites.
