Hoping to renew its growth, the social network will let users transport their profiles to other sites, such as Yahoo and eBayMySpace is moving into your space. Users of the social network will soon be able to transport their MySpace profile pages to sites across the Web, including the portal Yahoo! (YHOO), global shopping site eBay (EBAY), and microblogging service Twitter. "Today, MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Internet," company co-founder Chris DeWolfe said on a conference call May 8. "Profiles can now be shared across all the sites our users visit."
The move by News Corp.'s (NWS) social network is in keeping with a trend of tearing down the digital walls that long have separated one family of Web sites from another. Tech companies are increasingly letting users access information previously found on one particular site and shift it to any number of other online destinations.
With its announcement, MySpace became the first social network to say it would let users take the profiles created on its site elsewhere. The changes take effect with partner sites in the coming weeks, company executives said. Eventually, MySpace users will be able to move their profiles to a wider range of other sites. "The walled-garden approach will not survive in the long run," MySpace Chief Operating Officer Amit Kapur says in an interview.
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