New Mozilla-proposed APIs that advance the Web as a platform and will be submitted to the W3C for standardization.
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The term Web 2.0 describes the post-dot-com generation of sites and services that use the Web as a platform--things like Flickr, BitTorrent, tagging and RSS syndication.
In a deeper sense, YouTube is following the classic Google strategy of using the Web as a platform to empower more developers, creating a swarm bigger than anyone else can find.
In India, it runs a close second to Opera as the top choice, either as a web platform or an app.
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Five years later, in version 3.0, it added an application programming interface (API) for its themes making it an effective platform for developing web applications as well as pure content sites.
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It's also worth noting Livestream isn't constraining the Studio software to its own web platform, meaning that, as is the case with the HD500, streams can also be shared to third-party places like Ustream, Akamai and, you guessed it, YouTube Live.
The significance of the boost should not be lost on advertisers, markets, developers and anyone else seeking to monetize the platform as it surfs the web.
Andreessen said Glass would become a platform like the web browser and could become as ubiquitous as the mobile phone.
There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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As the Web moguls see it, the Internet has evolved from a method of transmitting information to its own computing platform, as novel as the personal computer was in the late 1970s, or client-server networks were in the '80s.
Like so many other web giants, Facebook just wants to be seen as a technology platform enabling its users to do all sorts of cool stuff without any interference.
Enter Web ET, which Goldman touts as the first multi-product platform that lets bond buyers see Goldman's prices and point-and-click their way through millions of dollars in live trades.
We also think that anything you have to manage or install locally is not going to be as secure or stable as it is if you access it on a web based platform.
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Corporate app store Web-pages need to work in cross-platform browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari to allow actions to be carried out with the existing Web interface on a mobile device.
In fact, in its early days, it didn't have apps at all as the company urged developers to create optimized web apps for the platform similar to what Mozilla is now advocating for its streamlined mobile operating system Boot2Gecko.
As a result of all this unique functionality, the UrtheCast web platform will spark a great deal of awareness, creativity, and unique user events from around the world.
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First off, as "webOS" implies, apps written for the platform are web-based -- HTML, JavaScript, that sort of stuff -- but unlike Apple's original vision for the iPhone, Palm's going to include libraries that allow devs to tap in to the Pre's hardware capabilities and interact closely with services exposed by the operating system.
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Crovitz: One of our offerings is a new e-commerce platform that will be integrated into a Web site, to make it as easy as possible to got to one place and sign up for what they want -- an all-you-can-read bundle with a single price for multiple brands, or micropayments for individual articles.
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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.
As YouTube continues to become a stronger platform (currently the second largest search engine on the Web, right behind Google), Zefr will continue to capitalize on that growth.
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The creative team behind The Beach are scriptwriter Rhiannon Cousins, playwright and multi-platform writer Bethan Marlow and Carl Morris, who works as an advisor helping companies use the web to find and grow communities.
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