MySpaceID and Facebook Connect compete head-to-head
Posted by Manuela Barreto @ March 18th, 2009 in Social Marketing
Is MySpace ID now a threat to Facebook Connect?
MySpaceID is said to be the equivalent of Facebook Connect in that it is an application that allows users to sign in to and export data to third-party sites using their MySpace identity.
Once users are logged in partner sites using their MySpaceID, not only are they connecting their MySpace profile data to partner sites, they also have the power of finding their own friends on these partner sites, as well as, post updates and profile information.
Other advantages include:
- Connect MySpace profile data to partner sites
- Find MySpace friends on a partner site
- Register on partner sites using their MySpace URL
- Publish activities from partner sites to MySpace
- Syndicate activities on MySpace to partner sites
However, the MySpaceID application is a few steps ahead of Facebook Connect in that it integrates OpenSocial, OpenID and OAuth, all of which make it more ‘open’, whereas Facebook Connect is a proprietary application which just makes it complicated for developers to tap into.
New updates are coming to MySpaceID, which will maybe gain some ground over Facebook Connect even though there has been lots of buzz going around Facebook Connect now available for iPhone.
Some of the changes include the recent partnership with Yahoo! which is currently running bucket-testing to implement the MySpaceID feature in its homepage.The official launch has not yet been announced to everyone, however this will definitely represent a major spike for MySpace since Yahoo! represents one of the most trafficked sites existent today.
So what’s it gonna be? Will people migrate from Facebook Connect to MySpaceID or will the latter pull in new members?
Check out Mashable’s post for more insight on the subject.
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Comments
Peter
March 18th, 2009
A threat? It seems MySpace is desperately trying to catch up with Facebook.
In my view MySpace should focus on user generated entertainment (i.e. Music, Film, Comedy, Art) and create gadgets to help users to publish there own creations.
Makes more sense to differentiate themselves from Facebook rather then just copy. They will end up the Social Network equivalent of what Yahoo is to Google.