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InternetMySpace to allow users to share data with Yahoo, others (AP)

Fri, 09 May 2008, www.yahoo.com

AP - Social networking site MySpace said Thursday it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with Web sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and others.

LOS ANGELES - Social networking site MySpace said Thursday it will soon enable users to quickly share profile data with Web sites operated by Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and others. MySpace aims to save its users keystrokes and allow them to export their photos, videos and lists of friends. "There's this concept that social networks are walled gardens," said Amit Kapur, MySpace's chief operating officer. "We're taking those walls down." Other sites that can receive the MySpace data include Twitter and Photobucket. Like MySpace, the photo-sharing site Photobucket is a unit of News Corp. The participating sites have a total of 150 million users and reach 85 percent of the Internet market in the United States. Many users of the sites already have accounts with MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, with 117 million members in more than 20 countries. MySpace will roll out the new feature in the next several weeks. Among other things, MySpace users could have their default photo and music interests appear... [ Read more on www.yahoo.com ]


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