Social networking site MySpace is to allow its users to share their information with other websites, it has emerged.

The popular internet site has always closely guarded its members' content but is now planning on broadening access to Yahoo, Twitter, eBay and Photobucket as part of its "data availability" project.

Anyone with a MySpace profile will now be able to share photographs, video clips, lists of friends and information about themselves with other sites.

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"The walls around the garden are coming down," MySpace boss Chris DeWolfe told the BBC.

He said the initiative "throws open the doors to traditionally closed networks by putting users in the driver's seat of their data and web identity."

Users will have complete control over what information they share and who gets to see it.

Mr DeWolfe said he hoped other networking sites - such as rival Facebook - would sign up to the agreement.

"This project is open to any site out there that wants to work with us," he said. "We are happy to work with Facebook if they want to join up with our effort."

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