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Friday, October 19, 2007
Industry Note: Next-Gen Platform Competition
So, for the last month, I've been analyzing the next-gen economics of platforms - and arguing that all the debate about who'll win the Facebook warz is meaningless; just sound and fury.
You can read the notes for the analyses - today, you should note that, unsurprisingly, Google agrees.
Still think the F8 pseudo-platform is sustainable? It's not. Guess what this means for Facebook - yet another player (the master of next-gen strategy, no less) willing to compete on openness. Oh noes.
Comments:
Umair, would love to have a serious debate with you over the argument I made against you here : http://blahsploitation.blogspot.com/2007/10/hmmmm.html (I sent an email, but don't know if it's still valid.) regards phil jones
hey phil, that's an interesting post - i enjoyed reading it. the error you make is to conflate open vs closed with public vs private. think about it for a while - open != public. thx for the comment.
Umair, I can understand the difference *conceptually*. I just can't see how it can be done in practice. I mean I can't imagine a *technological* solution that would give the users sufficient control over their privacy that doesn't require closedness from the yasn-as-platform owner.
Although re: federated privacy, maybe this is in the right direction. http://notes.aharonic.net/?p=92
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