Blog Assignment #11 - MySpace “Data Availability”
MySpace “Data Availability”, provided by myspace with conjunction with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own subsidiary company, Photobucket. Myspace says that their new service will “playing nice with the rest of the Internet”.
“MySpace is essentially making key user data, including (1) Publicly available basic profile information, (2) MySpace photos, (3) MySpaceTV videos, and (4) friend networks, available to partners via their (previously internal) RESTful API, along with user authentication via OAuth”, and states that their service will turn the traditional webpage, an “island”, away from seclusion and will promote interconnectivity.
Myspace states; “partners will be able to access MySpace user data, combine it with their own, and present it on their sites outside of the normal widget framework. Friends lists can be synchronized, for example. Or Twitter may use the data to recommend other Twitter users who are your MySpace friends.”
a mochup of myspace Data Availability’s potential
