MySpace joins shared identity service OpenID

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp's MySpace Internet social network will join the OpenID alliance to begin letting its users take their online identity to other sites and social networks without having to register again.The move comes after the network decided in May to let its estimated 115 million users ... ...share their MySpace profile information on some other sites.OpenID is an open source alliance that, by letting users take one identity to multiple websites, aims to eliminate the need to create multiple user names and profiles."All this will tie together to make it more useful for MySpace users to have MySpace accounts even when they're not on MySpace," Jim Benedetto, the network's senior vice president of technology, said in a phone interview."We hope you'll be able to take your MySpace friends wherever you go," he said.But initially it will not be that simple.

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