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...Techland wants to create the next great platform, of course. What's new here is that it's possible for any number of them to succeed. "Among the things that are different from the old status quo is the idea that one will win," says Marc Andreessen, who helped write the first widely adopted browser, Mosaic, which popularized the Web. The Internet is a much larger playing field than PC operating systems. "Trying to decide which will win," Andreessen adds, "is kind of like debating whether beef, chicken or lobster is going to win the market for food...
...watch the video of the speech, as I did, by Googling the name of the developers' conference, "F8." What made F8 significant, historic even, was that it was the first time the Facebook platform was thrown open to developers. Anyone who knew how to write applications for Facebook was invited in. Andreessen says an open-coding environment is key to any successful platform because the easier it is to use, the more developers will be drawn to it, making the platform that much more powerful. Facebook also gave developers free distribution. Users who want...
...Google retaliated last November with OpenSocial, an alliance of Facebook's competitors - MySpace, hi5 and Google's own social network, Orkut, among others - to try to create a write-once, run-anywhere application platform. That means a developer, with only modest tweaking, can build an application that runs across all the major social networks except, of course, Facebook. "When you talk to developers, most of them don't have 50 people; they can't write their applications 50 different ways," Kraus says. "They really want to write their application once and get as much distribution as possible...
...fact at the other end of the relationship spectrum that we seem to struggle more: serving as partners of and advocates for the athletes and coaches that we cover.Now, I am not suggesting that we take players’ gripes directly to press or that we should write columns drooling over the successes (and covering up the failures) of Harvard teams. However, it does seem to be our duty to use the power of the pen to the benefit of athletes when the situation demands it.When the Athletic Department shuts down a major facility without informing coaches or players?...
Seniors who completed a thesis were generally more satisfied with their concentration and academic experience than those who dropped their thesis or did not write one at all. They also reported a higher...