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Matt McAlister has a great post up about the idea of media as a platform, which I encourage anyone interested in the future of media online to read. He says that in his view it isn’t really about “openness” or “walled gardens” and other popular metaphors: It’s not about stopping bad behavior or even embracing [...]
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As far as I’m concerned, the answer is yes. But I still think it’s interesting to see that LinkedIn is planning to open its network in what appears to be an attempt to “platformize” it the way Facebook did — at least according to a tip that the site All Facebook got (and to a [...]
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I continue to be fascinated — as many are — by the growth of the Facebook “widget-o-sphere,” whether it’s a service such as iLike, which now has 3.8 million users (although how many of them are actually using it in any real sense is debatable), or one like Where I’ve Been, which is the latest [...]
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Each time I write about iLike — the music-sharing application that is by far the most popular app on the new Facebook platform F8 — the numbers boggle the mind (and my mind doesn’t boggle easily). The first time, it was the day that Facebook’s new widget-sharing feature went live, and iLike had gone from [...]
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As promised, Facebook has launched an ambitious effort to transform itself from being just a social network into a platform with all kinds of services from other companies running inside its network. In a sense, Facebook will be the frame of the car and the engine, and other companies will provide the radio and even [...]
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