Facebook Connect, Google Open Social, and twitter the closed source content trap are all a slap in the face to the Open Principals of the internet.

Any developer and proponent of a truly Open web must take an active roll in pushing for the success of Laconica and OpenID and should not help to extend any closed source application.

Today we have no less than 3 closed source companies in a race to become the “Standard” for holding our Identity and therefore having access to the content that we read and creates. These companies will leverage our content to create revenue; giving nothing back to the content owners or to the community.

Why do developers especially Open Source developers continue to build and extend applications for closed source companies that under mind open source standards and ideals ?

Why do users continue to view giving control of their identity and content to these companies as a win, when in fact the win is clearly on the side of the company that you have allowed to take control of your identity and to generate value and revenue from your content. In return for our compliance we do not even have a right to take our identity and our content where we want.

Open Source developers, please do not write any code to extend the propitiatory services of closed source applications . They are not your “Friend” When you write code for these companies you undermine the integrity of the Open Web.

I’m not sure that we’ll see a “winner” anytime soon. For Twitter, it does make more sense to support Facebook: it seems to be the same crowd overall.

Twitter will have an OAuth solution soon (or so they say, but they have said that many times). Which goes to show that Google probably has not talked to Twitter at all, or else they probably would have waited to integrate.