Platforms
On Websites and Montetization
The platform is a means to an end—not the end itself.
Tag: Strategy
Thoughts on ways to build a better mousetrap and outsmart your competition.
Platforms
On Websites, Planks, and Platforms
Your site is a plank, not a platform.
Platforms
Why Yahoo! Isn't Google: A Theory
My HuffPo piece comparing the two companies.
Platforms
Stasis Is Not an Option
Keep improving your product, service, application, and offerings—your planks.
Platforms
On Platforms and Rules
Open APIs may not be completely, well, open.
Platforms
Zuck Knows About Planks
There will be no one winner in the Great Tech War of 2012
Platforms
On Customers, Platforms, and Time
A very interesting conversation and discussion on platforms.
Platforms
Platforms Evolve—and So Do Planks
If you don't cannibalize your own business, your competition will do it for you.
Platforms
A Big Challenge to the Google Algorithm
Thoughts on Google's dominance.
Platforms
How Big Is Amazon?
A really interesting infographic on Bezos' company.
Platforms
Google and the Social War
It's comfortable for us to put things in terms of wins and losses.
Platforms
There's No One Right Way to Build a Platform
Apple and Amazon have very different views towards computing—and business, for that matter.
Platforms
Becoming a Platform Company
On one company's mission to build a platform.
Platforms
Netflix and the Age of the Platform
Hearing your customers is not good enough.
Platforms
Don't Call It a Platform
Except Excel not a platform. It is an application. There's a big difference.
Platforms
We've Seen This Movie Before
Thoughts on AWS.
Platforms
Facebook: Close to MySpace?
Thoughts on some striking similarities.
Platforms
On Platforms and Rock Stars
Top-flight talent won't stick around if they can't do cool things.