I think we have seen this trend for a while now. The fundamental question seems to be around how open/closed an essential part of the web experience can be. As

I think we have seen this trend for a while now. The fundamental question seems to be around how open/closed an essential part of the web experience can be. As always there is a delicate balance somewhere between crazy open and crazy closed. Without leaning towards one side or another, it seems to open side seems to be losing over time. We have seen it with discussions about open standards like OAuth: http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4294959 http://hackerne.ws/item?id=4294959 It seems (maybe) like there is a ultimate trade-off between openness and ease of use/convenience and we as users usually decide with out wallet where to go. And it seems like we have voted indeed.