When my book was sold last year, I had no other platform than my Forbes writing, which people were reading because it was Forbes, not me.
Another early innovator in the cloud space, and one of the people who inspired the first generation of my Enomaly IaaS platform back in 2004 is Kate Keahey.
Plus, Spence fired off an e-mail that summed up the advice he had given me and provided links to more information to help me increase my professional speaking platform.
Using Interop as a platform for my own informal study on the state of the cloud, the technology has already moved beyond the hype stage and well into the adoption one.
Because the power of the platform is the only power that will matter (see my recent post for more information on platform power).
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I've written in the past about my concern that the Android platform is fragmenting much like desktop Linux has over the years, and the potential for the platform to turn into a patchwork of devices and vendor specific modifications that bear little relationship with each other.
My platoon was going to be fast roping directly onto a platform a couple hundred yards from the main building and my first task was to control the fast rope and direct the pilots into the right position and elevation.
Eugene Kim, a founder of My Modern Met, a blogging platform site, posted about the village yesterday, and has included a larger set of amazing images.
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One of my bets is on Facebook as a platform positioned to deliver digital engagement.
It's the perfect platform for me to promote my business and connect with the people who can help it to grow.
According to my most recent poll, the Blackberry platform dominates IT support share with at 47%, the Apple iOS solution is second at 27%.
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Perhaps I am overly pessimistic, but all the Facebook changes I have observed over the last two years have actually taken the platform backwards as far as my business needs are concerned.
For example CISCO has entered the enterprise collaboration market with QUAD, in my view the outstanding E2.0 platform, but has failed to spell out a leading vision for how the enterprise needs to change, how it will change and how technology can support change.
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The International Olympic Committee facilitates sharing of lessons learned and best practices from Games to Games, but in 2008, the iPhone was only a year old, My Space was the most visited social media platform, Twitter was still in its first year, and it would be two years before the iPad would even be launched.
Back in my AOL days, we suffered through a publishing platform called Rainman.
It is hard to see how social networking can be both a platform for me openly share stuff and my private virtual locker.
My conclusion: Unishared seems to be an intuitive platform and has the potential to cause a revolution in the education sector because of its innovative student centric approach.
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Ultimately, my view is that Windows 8 will be a great platform and will have many fans.
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My thesis is that if you purport to be a platform, your businss model needs to reflect your platform-ness.
My money is on NFC paired with a robust payment platform, and maybe a partnership or two thrown in for good measure.
There are of course many assumptions built into such plans, but my review leads me to believe that it is a robust platform for serious exploration of the Big Venture Play.
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As my colleague James McQuivey summed it up recently, this platform war is also expanding into the TV space even though Apple did not make any specific announcement on this topic yet.
Early on in my tenure, we saw that Android would be the mass market platform that we wanted to put our support behind.
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That's why I'm proud to announce the launch of my team page on Catapult.org, a crowd-funding platform dedicated to supporting women and girls.
RocketHub, as readers of my column are likely aware, is a forward-thinking crowdfunding platform that is working drive education on the power of online fundraising.
Be it the latest mobile technology or the newest social media platform or whatever, I am usually instantly drawn and my curiosity piqued.
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My best advice to advertisers taking a serious look at Facebook as a platform for their social initiatives is to treat it like the mobile web.
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