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Title:

Taking Platforms to the Next Level

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Advanced
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Panel
Category:
New Technology / Next Generation
Presenter:
Ben Metcalfe, Swordfish Corp
Description:
Companies are finally realizing that in order to find market success they must build their products as platforms and empower their technical audience to embrace and extend their core proposition at the edges. But what comes next? Where is this all heading? What does a platform ubiquitous internet look like? Where does this all lead to?
Ben Metcalfe
on 8/8/08
(I am the presenter of this proposed session) This is a panel with my ‘professional hat on’ (I help companies such as MySpace and Seesmic plan, build, roll out and run open platforms) I want to bring together some visionaries in the platform space and brainstorm a little on what the future of the platform is. We’ll concentrate on use cases, new ways platforms can work and opportunities for doing cool new thing. This won’t be a circle jerk about who will be the leading vendors, etc… at this point that doesn’t matter so much. I should stress that as per SxSW's request for this year's event, we will be technical in our discussion, and as such this panel is listed as "advanced". However, I believe that the subject matter will be relevant and engaging for anyone who is interested in platforms, or websites that could provide them and/or consume them.
Marcus Nelson
on 14/8/08
You have my attention Ben - let us know if we can help! -- 5 stars!
Kevin Blanchard
on 14/8/08
I'd love to hear more about this. If it is chosen I will make sure to attend.
Alicia diVittorio
on 3/9/08
Agreed. the word platform keeps popping up in the media more and more. I'm curious to hear how different people define 'platform' -- and as it is defined, how can you build a successful company with it.
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