2008-10-26
AppJet and Web 2.0
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It’s too late for me to properly reply to Tim O’Reilly’s post about cloud computing, but there is one thing I’ve learnt during this week’s AppJet jaunt (as described over on Vox), and it relates to a point right at the bottom of his post:
the cloud platform, like the software platform before it, has new rules for competitive advantage. And chief among those advantages are those that we’ve identified as “Web 2.0”, the design of systems that harness network effects to get better the more people use them.
Well, AppJet’s library sharing (alluded to on Vox) has this property. You can see who’s importing your library, who’s cloned (forked) it, and the same goes, thinking about it, for apps. That’s not really that much of a big deal, but it’s inching towards something. (Compare: github.)
Sorry. I’m sure I’ll return to posting a stream of random pictures tomorrow.
