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MySpace today announced the launch of a new initiative to allow users to export the content within their profiles to third-party sites across the Web.

The Data Availability program, which MySpace plans to take live within the next few weeks, will launch with preliminary partners Yahoo, eBay, Twitter and Photobucket, but CEO Chris DeWolfe said it will be open to all sites on the Web.

“Today MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Web,” DeWolfe said during a conference call with reporters. “We’re hoping to create a significantly more social experience across the entire Web.”

Along with the unveiling, MySpace also announced that it is joining the DataPortability Working Group, a growing coalition of developers and Internet companies including Google and Facebook, who are working to enable fluid data exchange between sites through common standards.

“Users will have complete control over what information they share and who they share it with,” COO Amit Kapur said, adding that sharing with other sites will be on a strictly opt-in basis.

Today’s announcement also builds on Yahoo’s pledge to support Google’s OpenSocial standard to enable developers’ applications run across all participating platforms, including MySpace.

Source: InternetNews.com