Great posting:
Just like with golf, technology is as much about ensuring that your bad hits are recoverable as it is ensuring that you make great ones. We’re all going to have failures in our careers but avoiding the really big pitfalls will help you keep your company on the right growth path. Here are 10 common mistakes we at AKF Consulting see made during platform development — and the ones we believe are the most important to avoid.
Read the full article: 10 of the Biggest Platform Development Mistakes – GigaOM
I’m dizzy – exciting and important news come in too fast. The major internet and tech companies fight for the next big thing on the Internet: Platform-as-a-Service, in short PaaS. In other terms: who will provide the standard for an “Internet Operating System” (for consumer applications; business applications are a different battleground)?
I don’t know and I don’t want to guess … you?
Here is an interesting excerpt from an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg:
The trend in platforms is that they aren’t going to be focused on any single site, such as www.facebook.com. We’ll be focusing on improving the platform to help developers build applications that live on other web sites, so people can use the connections they have to communicate more efficiently. An increasing number of Facebook applications live outside of Facebook.com
Via Q&A with Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, on hiring, growth, and its platform » VentureBeat
I don’t take this message too seriously:
Facebook’s long, slow, and, for some, sad decline into oblivion has begun.A recent report from The New York Times stated that the company is going to try to make it easier for members to get off the service. This is a clear indication that the social network’s days in the sun are numbered.
Read the full story at FOXNews.com – Ulanoff: Facebook’s Death Spiral Has Begun.
Facebook is still attractive – as a meta-network and a development platform for social web applications. However, competition will be harder in the future. The profiteers are the users! So have a good time (especially as a Facebook user)!
I’m looking forward to see our software running on the Wii (in the future ;) ):
Today, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Nintendo announced that a new online service for its Wii video game console called WiiWare will be available on May 12. This service will allow independent developers to create their own games for the popular system that any user can download directly to the console.
Via Nintendo’s WiiWare platform to let independent developers get their game on » VentureBeat
