For those interested in more than just googling or e-mailing find out what Marc Andreessen wrote about ‘internet platforms’ back in Sept 2007 at his blog. The blog reads like a marketing speech for Marc’s venture into Ning (Ning platform). Still… Ning platform has turned into a ‘rich’ playground for Marc and Co.
In my computing days before the www, platforms are stuff that makes computing a fun playground. With Web 2.0 and the various social networking sites weaving into the www, it’s nolonger just ‘internet’ or www but also ‘the cloud’.
Mmm…searching in the ‘cloud’ and whether I will have a choice as to whether my blogs and e-mails are still ‘mine’ and not lost in the platforms.