Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Establish a non-profit and open source software (with copyrights held by the non-profit) which collects, merges, and redistributes the graphs from all other social network sites into one global aggregated graph. This is then made available to other sites
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
protocols must be unopinionated.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Instagram’s initial hook was a free photo-filtering tool.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Platforms, like the iPhone, enable new applications. New apps make platforms more valuable.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The other group, which I call the computer, is the far more serious of the two, and it is motivated by a long-term vision.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Technology that borrows from what came before is sometimes called skeuomorphic.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Email and the web succeeded because of their simplicity, generality, and openness.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The web was never just supposed to be a one-way publishing system, but the first decade of the web has been dominated by a tool which has been read-only—the web browser,” he wrote.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
From a profit maximization perspective, the best outcome for a platform like Windows would be to have lots of smaller complements with weak, fragmented power, but for the sum of those complements to make the platform more valuable as a whole.