Connecting (to) the Internet

Facebook and Myspace have recently announced open data availability initiatives. These initiatives will allow for the data uploaded to either your myspace, or facebook, to be shared across the many social networks that you are part of.



For example if you are part of photobucket and upload pictures onto your myspace the myspace platform will allow you to share that content you just uploaded with photobucket. Essentially it makes myspace and facebook a dashboard for your online identity.

I think this is a great move, as it has become such a hassle to maintain multiple social networks. This is creating an internet that is more and more connected. I think we are going to see more sites allowing for this kind of sharing of data. Social media has made the world a smaller place, these open data initiatives will make it even smaller.