blog.pmarca.com, 16.09.2007: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet

blog.pmarca.com, 16.09.2007: The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet
by Marc Andreessen: "This post is my attempt to disentangle and examine the topic of 'Internet platform' in detail. I will go at it by identifying three distinct approaches to providing an Internet platform, and project forward on where I think each of the three approaches will go."

Tags: webservice, apis, platform, analysis, web2.0

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.

The FASTForward Blog, 08.08.2007: Enterprise 2.0 Success Stories from Awareness.
by Bill Ives: "In a recent post, I provided an overview of Awareness, an enterprise 2.0 platform for managing social media, formerly known as iUpload. Here some of the ways it is being used."

Tags: web2.0, platform, social, media, webservice

GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom

GigaOM, 26.02.2007: Ning: let ‘000 Social Nets Bloom
by Om Malik: "The company has taken its wide array of offerings – video aggregation, photo albums, weblogs, forums, sausages and sauerkraut – and has come up with what amounts to a 15-minute Social Network."

Tags: ning, review, community, platform, socialsoftware, web2.0