Comments on: MySpace joins DataPortability, announces first implementation

By: Fabianadas — MySpace, oauth y la no “portabilidad” de datos

Fabianadas — MySpace, oauth y la no “portabilidad” de datos — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:10:45 +0000

[…] en MySpace al sitio desde donde queramos acceder a los datos. Esto, aseguran desde MySpace (Ben Metcalfe) es sólo el comienzo y no se plantea como algo sólo para Twitter, Yahoo y eBay, sino abierto a […]

By: The Song Remains The Same » Blog Archive » Stone Soup

The Song Remains The Same » Blog Archive » Stone Soup — Sat, 10 May 2008 07:07:16 +0000

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By: The Song Remains The Same » Blog Archive » Myspace Announces Data Availability Initiative

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:49:35 +0000

[…] of their opensocial specs, along with their intentions to support “data availability” (Ben Metcalf, Christian Scholz, and VentureBeat). The major focus of this initiative is data sharing between […]

By: Lachlan Hardy

Lachlan Hardy — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:28:14 +0000

It is seriously exciting to see advances like this. Fantastic!

What I’m most interested in right now, as a non-MySpace user, is actually the OAuth implementation. Is *it* a two-way street? While MySpace now support OAuth for other sites?

And does the fact that Twitter is on the list mean it’s finally got its own OAuth implementation sorted? Or doesn’t that matter because it’s only one way?

By: Tientien

Tientien — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:17:18 +0000

Ben,

This is a great news. Will this feed between mySpace and partners back-end be bi-directional? Like that provided by Microsoft’s FeedSync. So, a partner can both GET and POST user’s social data from/to mySpace?

Thanks,

By: metarand » Blog Archive » Open Web One Giant Step Closer: MySpace Offers Data Availability With eBay, Photobucket, Twitter, Yahoo

Thu, 08 May 2008 20:03:57 +0000

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