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Is Facebook just clueless about what OpenSocial means or are they being disingenious?

Today Yahoo, Google, and MySpace formed a non-profit OpenSocial foundation to help promote a universal standard for developer applications on social-networking sites.

Here was Facebook’s response:

“As the largest contributor to the memecached [sic] system, Facebook has long been a leader and supporter of open source initiatives but will not join the foundation,” a statement from the company read. “The company will continue to evaluate partnership opportunities that will benefit the 300,000 Facebook Platform developers while improving the Facebook user experience.”

It’s absolutely apples and oranges to compare Open Source with OpenSocial and the larger trends that it’s a part of, including data portability and distributed social networking.

There are indeed some spiritual similiarities between Open Source and the Open Social movements. Like Microsoft, Facebook seeks to achieve several kinds of lock-in, which the open movements seek to combat. (It’s no accident that Microsoft is a significant investor in Facebook.)

• Data lock-in: Facebook seeks to keep user’s data and social graph tethered to their walled garden. The terms of use for Facebook applications are design to preserve this lockin.
• Platform lock-in: Facebook seeks to create a proprietary platform for application authors, so that compelling applications can’t easily run on and add value to Facebook competitors.

Contributing to memcached is laudable, but has nothing to do with contributing to an open social fabric for the internet.