Two well-known Web sites have completed implementations of MySpace's data portability program, which has also been modified to allow a degree of user data caching and storage by external Web sites and to support the OpenID single sign-on method, MySpace announced Monday.
The moves represent the latest enhancements to the MySpace Data Availability Initiative, launched in May with big-name partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and fellow News Corp. unit Photobucket, and opened broadly to any Web site last month.
o let its members carry to other sites their public basic profile information, like their bios, interests, favorite music and movies, as well as their photos and videos. Changes made to these elements on their MySpace profiles will be dynamically updated on the third-party sites.

By Rafe Needleman – July 22, 2008 9:00 AM PDT MySpace today is announcing support for the OpenID identify platform. The means users of services that let you

LOS ANGELES, Jul 22, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - MySpace, the world's premier social network, today announced two milestones in its continued effort to lead the future of a more social Web--support for the OpenID movement, a free framework that simplifies a user's online experience by decentralizing their digital identity; and two implementations of MySpace's own Data Availability initiative with Flixster and Eventful.
"MySpace is committed to working with the open source community to allow users to widely control their digital identity," said Jim Benedetto, senior vice president of technology for MySpace. "Joining OpenID marks the next step in MySpace's goal to allow our users

by Chloe Albanesius MySpace on Tuesday issued its support for the OpenID standard, and announced that users will be able to add profile content to Flixster