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Patrick Chanezon about Platforms and Software Development

 

“Information Rules” and OpenSocial

April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

Information Rules, by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian (now chief economist at Google) is the best book about technology strategy I have read. It was published in 1998, 10 years ago, so the examples are Netscape vs Microsoft, or Microsoft vs Intuit, but the examples are just illustrations of deeper principles that apply today more […]

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“Comparing Social Platforms” Panel at Web 2.0 today

April 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Today I’ll be representing Google (Orkut and iGoogle) at the “Comparing Social Platforms” Panel at Web 2.0 moderated by Justin Smith from the Inside Facebook blog. There will be representatives from facebook, MySpace, Bebo and SixApart. Should be a fun panel. One of the questions he plans to ask is about viral channels and balancing […]

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Google OpenSocial Platforms: Orkut and iGoogle

April 22nd, 2008 · 2 Comments

Jia Chen from RockYou invited me to talk about Google OpenSocial platforms, Orkut and iGoogle during his talk at Web 2.0 Expo this morning: Building an App for Social Platforms. It was a great sessions, with representative from hi5 and MySpace presenting their implementation of OpenSocial, and Jia and Raymond showing how to create an […]

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