Days after announcements from Facebook and Google about their new social-networking platforms, MySpace on Monday announced the launch of the MySpace Open Platform along with a roster of partners, including Vodafone and Netvibes.
The MySpace Open Platform includes several data-portability products — the MySpace Application Platform, MySpaceID, and the Post To MySpace sharing feature — that are now being newly branded, expanded and combined into the platform as a suite. As with Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect, MySpaceID expands on users’ abilities to control their portable social identity as they move between sites online.
Partnering with Google
MySpace has allied itself with the Google camp, announcing its support for Google Friend Connect as part of MySpaceID. Google Friend Connect allows any Web site that is part of the network to provide social features, such as a single log-in or access to a user’s profile.
MySpaceID, which the company said is now available on AOL, Flock, Eventful, Flixster, Yoono and others, has two main components. One is an open-standards stack, including OpenSocial, OAuth and OpenID; and the other is Google Friend Connect.
MySpaceID allows users to connect MySpace profile information to partner sites and to find MySpace friends on a partner site. Upcoming capabilities will include registering on partner sites using your MySpace info, publishing activities from partner sites to MySpace, and syndicating activities on MySpace to partner sites.
MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe said the Web has moved from “curated experiences to personalized start pages, and now we’re in the age of identity management.” MySpace first announced the ability for its users to take their identity around the Web about six months ago.
Vodafone, Netvibes
The new effort also moves MySpace’s portable identity management deeper into the world of mobile devices. In conjunction with the mobile communications giant Vodafone, the company said the OpenSocial standard has evolved to…