what is the platform?

http://dock.io is building their version of the Platform, aiming at competing with  Linkedin. Similar to my early vision of the Platform, they would like users to fully control both their profile and the content they generate. 

In this blog, I have been predicting the emergence of the future Platform and advocating its benefits. However, to stay balanced, I have to list some of the major concerns liked to the platform. 1. Privacy - the power controlling the Platform will have ultimate access to user information. As the Platform is essentially the Second Brain on the Internet, having access to the Platform gives an unprecedented insight into activities and thoughts of a person. 2. Security - unauthorized access to the Platform by hackers may have a devastating effect on a person and result in financial, reputation damage and even physical danger in case of illegal access by criminals. 3. Monopoly - the increasing returns to scale pattern observed across most historic internet platforms may likely result in emergence of a single Platform controlled by a for-profit corporation. This may result in consumer lock-up and disrupt the competition and innovation of service providers. 4. Governance - it is uncl

The GINI-SA Project of the EU Lefteris Leontaridis , NetSmart S.A. GINI-SA is a Support Action for the EC which aims to analyse how a Personalized Identity Management (PIM) ecosystem in which individuals can manage their own digital identities and control the exchange of their identity information.  Under the GINI vision, individuals would manage their identities by means of an Individual Digital Identity (‘INDI’). An INDI can be described as a self-generated and self-managed digital identity, which is verifiable against one or more authoritative data sources.  Once created, users would have the ability to link their INDI with authoritative identity data maintained by both public- and private-sector entities. This data (or links thereto) could then be presented by the user towards relying parties. The user might wish to do this in order to meet transactional requirements (e.g., access control conditions set by a relying party) or underpin her trustworthiness towards others i

I just read a Booz study "The rise of generation C" -  I believe they largely share the vision of the Platform, though the transition to it is not discussed. As I understand, the authors expect the Platform to emerge by 2020.   http://www.booz.com/media/uploads/Rise_Of_Generation_C.pdf 

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During the  ITU expo in Geneva, had a chance to ask Bob Kahn if a new  platform competitor to google, apple and facebook can be designed.  He said that the issue of inter-operability for application and data may indeed require development of new platforms, but that may disturb the existing revenue streams, therefore the existing major companies mentioned are not very interested.  He believes that his Digital Object Architecture project could become a new platform. Several years ago, I had an opportunity to discuss my platform vision with Dr. Kahn during some other ITU event. His comments were very accurate and helped me a lot. Back then, he mentioned privacy as a major concern.