I engaged in a conversation today - off the record - with someone involved with MySpace regarding the Data Availability effort launched yesterday and the fact that it does NOT allow software developers to store any profile data on teh destination site.

The ‘person’ related to MySpace made it very clear that this was just an incremental step, a “dataportability light’ gesture - which of course) is better than nothing and gets MySpace moving towards doing the right thing.

But MySpace has a lot to lose and is scared shitless but is being FORCED to open up.  So they’re taking it slowly and cautiously.

I think we can all applaud MySpace for going halfway (or whatever the percentage is) but not going all the way is just not acceptable.

Clearly if a person wishes to import their profile data into some destination site - they should be allowed to do that - just like Plaxo and Microsoft enable.

But I think we all agree that something is better than nothing.

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