Tim thinks Facebook limits new ideas

The web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee considers websites like Facebook to be dangerous for the Web. They allow data to get in — but do not offer adequate ways to get them out again. In the Scientific American, Tim stated:

The basic Web technologies that individuals and companies need to develop powerful services must be available for free, with no royalties. Amazon.com, for example, grew into a huge online bookstore, then music store, then store for all kinds of goods because it had open, free access to the technical standards on which the Web operates.
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On the contrary, sites like Facebook or LinkedIn are just the opposite. They care about getting loads of data from their users, which in turn “becomes a central platform—a closed silo of content, and one that does not give you full control over your information in it.”
Apple’s iTunes software drives a similar path. “Not using open standards creates closed worlds,” Tim Berners-Lee explains. iTunes “identifies songs and videos using URIs that are open. But instead of ‘http:’ the addresses begin with ‘itunes:,’ which is proprietary. You can access an ‘itunes:’ link only using Apple’s proprietary iTunes program.”
Truly there is a point in Tim’s opinion. You cannot bookmark content in a Smartphone app. You cannot tweet a Skype call (‘skype:call…’) — simply because you are no longer on the Web, but in a closed communication universe.
In my opinion too, a disturbing fact.