October 2008
4 posts
gary vaynerchuk » Why do we only make smart... →
Wine Library TV and Revision3 are both great, and Gary V really distills a key point - use a tough economy to your advantage.
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » 18-year-old kid... →
This is a really neat story, and a Ponoko looks like a company with a cool idea. It seems there are a lot of opportunities (especially in business software) in creating ways for end users to make their ideas happen - without all the technical knowledge you’re “supposed to have” to do these things.
The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View —... →
While certianly acedemic, I think this paper provides some good rigor around how to think of a ‘platform’ - specifically the idea that:
Although it is a recurring theme across diverse literatures, the reuse and sharing of the core components of a platform is only half the story. Wheelwright and Clark observed that “a platform project creates products (and processes) that embed an...
