MySpace officially joins the DataPortability Project
The DataPortability Project wishes to welcome MySpace, the Internet’s largest social network, as the latest member of the initiative (official Press Release). MySpace joins other existing corporate members such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, LinkedIn, SixApart, and Digg.
We are excited that MySpace will join the rest of the community to continue the design, documentation and implementation of a set of best practices for inter-operable Data Portability between trusted applications and vendors. We also welcome their launch partners into the conversation - many of which are already members of the Project.
As part of their participation, we hope to see the MySpace “Data Availability” initiative evolve toward becoming a compliant implementation of the DataPortability Best Practices.
While the participation and endorsement of large vendors such as MySpace in the DataPortability project is a key part of our overall goals of industry wide user-centric data portability, we’d like to re-iterate that the project is an open, grass-roots initiative. This means that individuals, startups and medium scale companies are just as welcome to join the process and have just as much capacity to influence or even lead the discussions and the outcomes.
We encourage all community members to get involved, particularly engineers who can help refine the Technical Best Practice draft documents, Policy and legal specialists who can participate in the policy discussion and User Experience specialists who can kick start a set of user experience best practices.
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