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WHAT WOULD GOOGLE DO
Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy and How to Make Them Work for You
by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
One option a company with a useful network has (whether it’s an email platform or a social network) is to curate what they feature. They’ve built an asset and that asset goes up in value when it attracts thoughtful users.
The other option is to believe that ‘open’ is the answer, the more open the better. As we learned when we launched Squidoo a deca
... See morefrom The inevitable decline of fully open platforms by Seth Godin