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Robert Scoble has written a couple of posts recently about Microsoft products being a platform: 1. Robert quoting Kevin Warbach: "The Internet companies that have thrived while AOL faltered --

Doc Searls grabs the Web 2.0 meme by the horns and gives it a good shake. He's posted a thought-provoking piece in which he frames Web 2.0 in the following

Rev2.org is reporting that buried deep in the Facebook Developer wiki is mention of a Data Store API hinting at Facebook's possible intention of offering data storage to app developers.

Yahoo! announced tonight that it will be turning its mobile service, Yahoo! Go, into an open platform for 3rd party developers. Unlike Google's Android OS, the Yahoo! Go platform will

MySpace is launching its developer platform tomorrow and is going great lengths to highlight the ways it's different from the Facebook Platform. That's ironic given that the dominant reaction to

In a move further differentiating themselves from countless other platform plays, web-IM service Meebo will announce tomorrow that they have partnered with VideoEgg to offer Meebo platform participants a

Open source client platform for messaging, communications. Shows email interface with links embedded in each message - with web services calls to various apps/services. e.g. mouse over for Google map,

Giant social networks Myspace and Facebook have plans to expand beyond their walls. Myspace announced on Thursday its Data Availability platform and Facebook countered quickly with Facebook Connect. Now it

I'm just back from sunny Gold Coast, all theme-parked out, and already I'm planning my family's next trip. I'd love to make it to the next Web 2.0 conference, October

Mobile social networking company Frengo has released a toolkit for development of Open Social and Facebook applications on mobile phones. The Open Social Mobile Toolkit supports MySpace, Hi5, Bebo, and