Iron curtains are coming down all around mobile and app ecosystems...

Digital life has an increasingly Orwellian future: the big ecosystem creators are slowly but inexorably nudging users towards their ecosystems. It's like the Iron Curtain coming down across Europe after the second world war.

It is very subtle, it is very slow, but the signs are there that the long term of ambition of Google, Twitter, FaceBook, Microsoft, Apple and so on is to keep their users to themselves and lock out everyone else.

Under the guise of a cleanup, Google has been killing support for protocols and applications that allow users of other ecosystems to get access to Google services.

Twitter is just the same, having closed down its third-party API meaning that those wanting access to Twitter have to visit the website or use its dedicated app; new third-party apps are strictly limited.

Google Reader, Exchange ActiveSync, and the Google Voice app for BlackBerry are all gone and now Google has pulled the plug on its site blocking service for searchers. Full story...

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