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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. application services (security, integration), etc. Mentions - Marc Andreessen's - The three kinds of platforms you meet on the Internet A Level 1 platform's apps run elsewhere, and call into the platform via a web services API to draw on data and services -- this is how Flickr does it.

Platform 150
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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

By making it easier to capture value for goods & services that ordinary people provide and by creating a means of storing value today that can be used in the future — currencies have literally changed society and the world. I provided a short reading list in the Appendix if you want to read directly about the history of money.

Course 280