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By Daniel Nations, About.com Guide to Web Trends

MySpace, Facebook and Google To Share Data

Monday May 12, 2008

In April, I wrote about how the increasingly niche social networks that keep popping up are putting more pressure on technologies such as OpenSocial that will make keeping up with multiple social networks more manageable.

MySpace, Facebook and Google have each recently made announcements that will help those suffering from social network fatigue.

MySpace announced the Data Availability Initiative that will allow their users to share information with other sites such as Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter. Users will have full control over what information they share and who they share it, and will be able to profile information with new websites that they visit.

On Friday, Facebook announced Facebook Connect on their blog. Through Facebook Connect, users will be able to share their profile information, contacts, photos and other information stored on Facebook.

Adding to this is Google who will soon launch Friend Connect, a set of APIs for OpenSocial that will allow for the sharing of profile information.

With the number of new social networks that pop up each week, the sharing of information will become more important in the future and products like Yoono, a universal remote for social networks, will become a necessity for time management in the social networking age.

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