Comments on: Great article on different types of “Platforms” http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/ Essays on viral marketing, freemium, and social gaming Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adam Martin http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/comment-page-1/#comment-582 Adam Martin Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:15:08 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/#comment-582 <p>Actually, I think this is so intensely wrong, I wrote it up in more detail:</p> <p><a href="http://tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/09/27/internet-as-platform-marc-andreessen-is-wrong/" rel="nofollow">http://tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/09/27/internet-as-platform-marc-andreessen-is-wrong/</a></p> <p>/me ducks and runs for cover</p> Actually, I think this is so intensely wrong, I wrote it up in more detail:

http://tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/09/27/internet-as-platform-marc-andreessen-is-wrong/

/me ducks and runs for cover

]]> By: Adam Martin http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Adam Martin Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:41:03 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/#comment-581 <p>This doesn't make sense to me.</p> <p>How is a level 3 "better for the developer" than a level 2?</p> <p>You have to do more work, you pay more in ongoing costs, and any of your developer-users who are competent (i.e. likely to produce something successful) don't get any appreciable benefit.</p> <p>Hosting is incredibly cheap these days, and developing basic functionality is incredibly easy - look at the proliferation of non-programmers and what they've done on FB. Reducing the dev cost and hosting cost over and above a level 2 platform seems to have very little actual point to it.</p> <p>And, worst of all, with a level 3 platform, you make it into an "all-or-nothing" proposal, completely about-face from what has driven the proliferation of Web 2.0: people hate using you because you've become a proprietary platform that they cannot exist without.</p> <p>If I develop an FB app, and FB disappears tomorrow, I can still run my app all over the web with almost literally no changes to code.</p> <p>If I develop something in SL, and Linden implodes tomorrow ... I lose everything.</p> This doesn’t make sense to me.

How is a level 3 “better for the developer” than a level 2?

You have to do more work, you pay more in ongoing costs, and any of your developer-users who are competent (i.e. likely to produce something successful) don’t get any appreciable benefit.

Hosting is incredibly cheap these days, and developing basic functionality is incredibly easy – look at the proliferation of non-programmers and what they’ve done on FB. Reducing the dev cost and hosting cost over and above a level 2 platform seems to have very little actual point to it.

And, worst of all, with a level 3 platform, you make it into an “all-or-nothing” proposal, completely about-face from what has driven the proliferation of Web 2.0: people hate using you because you’ve become a proprietary platform that they cannot exist without.

If I develop an FB app, and FB disappears tomorrow, I can still run my app all over the web with almost literally no changes to code.

If I develop something in SL, and Linden implodes tomorrow … I lose everything.

]]> By: Vijay http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Vijay Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:13:20 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/#comment-580 <p>Andrew,</p> <p>What are your thoughts on a social networking web platform that can be deployed alongside a portal or ecommerce site? I found Marc's classification inetersting, have made a small extension to that on my blog posting.</p> <p>Vijay<br /> Dekoh</p> Andrew,

What are your thoughts on a social networking web platform that can be deployed alongside a portal or ecommerce site? I found Marc’s classification inetersting, have made a small extension to that on my blog posting.

Vijay
Dekoh

]]> By: BlogRush http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/comment-page-1/#comment-579 BlogRush Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:09:58 +0000 http://andrewchenblog.com/2007/09/16/great-article-on-different-types-of-platforms/#comment-579 <p>How would you classify this new blog traffic widget, which appears to be "going viral"? I guess level 2 since it's running elsewhere but gives some minor passive functionality to the blog visitor (signup link, different blog post titles each time).</p> How would you classify this new blog traffic widget, which appears to be “going viral”? I guess level 2 since it’s running elsewhere but gives some minor passive functionality to the blog visitor (signup link, different blog post titles each time).

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