Platforms
On Platforms and Friends
Allowing you to connect with your friends is not the same as being your friend.
Tag: Strategy
Thoughts on ways to build a better mousetrap and outsmart your competition.
Platforms
Microsoft and Closed Platforms
Microsoft and open source? You read right.
Platforms
Instagram and Black Swans
In the Age of the Platform, can you predict success?
Platforms
SAP and Enterprise Ecosystems
How enterprise software vendors are embracing platforms and ecosystems.
Platforms
Amazon: Understanding the Hate
How should you feel about Amazon?
Platforms
A Future-Proof Platform? Get Real.
You have to read this to believe it.
Platforms
Fixing Blackberry: A Radical Proposal
This is no guarantee, but it just might work.
Platforms
Platforms and Trends
Have we really entered the Age of the Platform?
Platforms
Platforms Guarantee Nothing
On the impermanence the Gang of Four.
Communication
Platforms and the Death of Synonyms
What happens when everything is a platform?
Platforms
The Once Unthinkable: You Now Can Ignore Microsoft
You never would have predicted this five years ago.
Platforms
Platform Lessons From Steve Jobs
Understanding what makes Apple a great company—and a great platform.
Platforms
Apple and Amazon: Competing Ecosystems
Contrasting two members of the Gang of Four.
Platforms
Ecosystems, Innovation, and Protecting Platforms
Ecosystems protect platforms; they don't inoculate them from risk.
Platforms
Policing the Platform
My HuffPo piece on Apple's app problem.
Platforms
Platforms, Offense, and Defense
Looking at platforms and sports metaphors.
Platforms
Platforms, Apple, and App Store Anarchy
Big Tech present problems. Here's one of the biggest.
Platforms
Google's Semantic Response to Siri
Understanding the semantic web and Google's forthcoming search overhaul.