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July 19, 2010

David Siegel is starting up his own Platform company! http://thepowerofpull.com/pull/blog

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Facebook Places and the Platform race

August 20, 2010

Facebook announcement of Places service is an important event in the Platform race. Facebook could have partnered with Foursquare or some other geospatial player(s) . Instead, Facebook is going for leverage strategy, aiming to build and control its own "wide platform". Possible strategic response for Foursquare, threatened by Facebook ambitions and lock of the "wider platform", is to integrate with a new, "open" social platform such as Diaspora. It would be a mistake for Foursquare to try to build its own social platform, unless they make it "open" and convince other major players like Zynga to integrate with it.

Self-adapting applications for Mobile Users In ubiquitous Computing environments

June 23, 2010

The MUSIC ( Self-adapting applications for M obile Us ers I n ubiquitous C omputing environments) project is an EU sponsored effort to engineer something very relevant to the Platform. MUSIC is building middle-ware that enables development of mobile applications across different mobile vendors and service providers (any network/any device concept). The project has created software design methodology and middleware to enable creation of self-adapting mobile applications. Something like MUSIC will be an essential component of the Platform. However, MUSIC itself is unlikely to evolve into the Platform. It is mostly a software-development methodology rather than a core Web service. MUSIC project would need to grow commercial and marketing muscle to penetrate the market. I would start with renaming the project - it's difficult to search for it on the internet. The user-centric approach of the MUSIC project is conceptually aligned with the Platform. However, my understanding is that t...