Technology Story - November 23, 2007
Posted by Scott Klososky on November 23rd, 2007 technology Add commentsOpen Platforms are driving an age of innovation like nothing we have ever seen. They are quietly going to change the way we do business so you better pay attention…
In the last few months we have had a tsunami of software platforms opened up for use, or announced. Facebook started the run up by opening their platform for 3rd party people to develop applications. Within days, a professor at Stanford developed a whole course around building Facebook applications and had 25 students enrolled and writing code. At the time of this writing, one students work has over 1 million users already. The application is a simple on, but effective with young people. It provides a way to send kisses to your friends over Facebook. This was followed closely by Google making two huge announcements with platform standards in the mobile phone world, and social networking space. Less publicly, a few other platforms have announced that they are, or have opened up to 3rd party developers, including Second Life. This paradigm is going to radically change the way we think of software because we will less and less think if it as a packaged product, and will more and more think of it as simply pieces of the global plumbing capability.
Web addresses getting scarce, better lock in your inventory now…
I have been gathering Web addresses for months now. The thought dawned on me a while back that it was going to be virtually impossible to find an available Web address without buying it on the market. Since the price difference is generally the delta between $9 and whatever you can negotiate with a broker (most often starting at $2000), and I am cheap, I have been gathering an inventory rapidly. The striking thing is how many options are already gone. The statistics I just checked showed that in the last 24hours there wer approx. 700,000 new names registered. Note, that was in the last DAY. Click here to see the entire picture. Although ICAAN may open up new extensions so that .com is not so overloaded, I think .com will long be the prime real estate. We are still in the early days of this land grab my friends, so I suggest that you assign someone to build your inventory today…
The interesting Website of the day is www.eswarm.com. As new ways to purchase products emerge, note this play on an old concept. This is simply an automated way for creating an ad hoc buying group. As I watched my wife and daughter get up at 3:00 AM to go shopping on Black Friday, I am reminded the lengths to which people will go to find a bargain…
Tags: Android, Facebook, Google, OpenSocial, Second Life, Stanford
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