ONE ONLINE IDENTITY?
If you’re sick of having to set up a new profile for yourself every time you join a new social network - you may be in luck. MySpace have launched a “Data Availability” effort with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket. The initiative’s goal is to let MySpace members share their public profile data outside of the walls of the social-networking site.
In a nutshell you create one profile representing your online identity and then you can take this with you wherever you go. Imagine all the time saved!
Facebook have responded with their own data portability initiative called “Facebook Connect” - expect to hear the phrase “opening of the walled garden” to be used a lot in the next few weeks.
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Simon Morgan said: (on May 14th, 2008 at 11:05 am)
Hey Nick, yes - the battle over profile data and who owns it. Facebook and Google seem to me to be the two key opposing players - Myspace is using Google’s Open Social APIs (along with many others, some you mention above, but also players like LinkedIn, Plaxo, Ning).
See here for more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
So it will be at least 2 profiles for a while to come!
Anyone know anymore?