PHIL SIMON
An interesting chat with Marshall Van Alstyne, Syed Hoda, Larry Weber, and Jeff Jarvis.
Category: Platforms
“I think music is the most phenomenal platform for intellectual thought.”
—Annie Lennox
Category: Platforms
On Microsoft and Marissa Mayer’s Challenge
Why Mayer’s turnaround is nothing like Microsoft’s Internet challenge in 1995.
Last to Cool
What can your company learn from Microsoft? Quite a bit, actually.
Postal Vision 2020 Keynote
Here’s my 30-minute talk address on The Age of the Platform.
On Groupon’s Death Watch
My take on the company’s troubles. Long story short: it really hasn’t added any planks to its platform.
PopTechJam Interview
My thoughts on tablets and The Age of the Platform.
Data Is Not a Platform
Data is not the endgame.
More Cross-Platform Pollination
Zynga is hardly the only company that sees the benefits of existing—and even promoting—other platforms.
Zynga and Cross-Platform Pollination
Understanding the gaming company’s moves to reduce its reliance upon Facebook.
How the Yammer Deal Benefits JIVE
Understanding Microsoft’s latest acquisition in the context of a “more social” business.