MySpace unveiled on May well 8 yet yet another business initiative to permit customers and developers to share their social-networking data — a goal Microsoft also has in its sights.The first partners announcing their participation in MySpace;s Data Portability initiative include Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp.;s Fox Interactive Media) and Twitter. I didn;t see mentions in any of the Information Portability coverage I saw as to when/whether Microsoft could possibly play here, too.So here are the answers to those questions: Microsoft demonstrated in March at its TechFest Research fair a project codenamed C2. Microsoft;s C2 is a social-aggregation toolkit that can work across desktop, mobile and Web clients. It aggregates data, including friends, call history, photos, contacts and the like — from Windows Live Spaces, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, users; email and other sources.Although it is technically still a research project, C2 was set to begin internal testing at Microsoft in April. A couple of completely different Microsoft product teams,
Windows 7, including the Windows Live for Mobile one, had expressed interest in incorporating C2 into future releases of their services.