Microsoft, Marketing, and the Age of the Platform
Check out this interesting article by Alex Goldfayn on Mashable on how to fix Microsoft, a company whose stock price has stagnated over the last decade . Short answer: change the company’s DNA and...
View ArticleInstagram and Black Swans
Does Instagram represent a formula for future startups? That might be a stretch, but check out the startup lessons from Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in this TechCrunch piece. No...
View ArticleThe End of Google Plus?
Is it the beginning of the end of Google Plus? Adam Metz seems to think so. Whether Google+ surpasses Facebook or Twitter to me is besides the point. Google needed a viable social plank in its...
View ArticleThe Postal Service as a Platform?
I recently spoke at Postal Vision 2020 (video coming soon). After my 30-minute speech in which I introduced the framework of The Age of the Platform, I sat on a panel moderated by Jeff Jarvis. Before...
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Amazon: A Life Saver?
As I write in The Age of the Platform, Amazon takes a great deal of flak these days for a wide variety of reasons. Many think that it’s a de facto monopoly. Independent book store owners are rife with...
View ArticleThe City as a Platform
The “everything as a platform” mind-set continues. Most recently, there’s been talk of the city as a platform. Open Data will allow for greater connectivity, information sharing, innovation, and the...
View ArticleShould Google Be Scared?
When will social search replace index search in the future–and will Google be prepared for it? We still don’t know the answer to the first question, but we got a glimpse yesterday. By all accounts,...
View ArticleThe Decline of the US Postal Service
Fairly soon, the U.S. Postal Service will cease delivering mail on Saturdays. It’s expected that the move, “beginning in August, would mean a cost saving of about $2 billion annually.” But that doesn’t...
View ArticleOn Android and Frenemies
Updated 4/4/2013 In its quest to kill Apple, has Google inadvertently empowered its rivals–and created new ones? We know that Google has created a monster in Samsung. Giving away Android has certainly...
View ArticleOn Yahoo!, Tumblr, and Planks
It appears as if Yahoo! is going pony up more than $1 billion for Tumblr–and the move has platform written all over it. A hefty price to pay? You betcha, but it’s a move that makes sense for Marissa...
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