Trouble with third-party widgets at Ning.

Missed this interesting nugget about the shift in Facebook-land.

Umair :

Today, I think there's perhaps a simpler and more powerful way to think strategically about platforms.

Let me advance a simplifying proposition: platforms are markets. The most useful way to think about platforms today is simply as markets.

Of course, I don't entirely agree with him, but a good position to start from.

John Robb on "Containerization", the creation of a new shipping platform.

The Bearhug

Update : now a camp.

Competing for an open (generative) web :

Think about it another way. The main metric that I would use to describe the health of a truly open web is this: That as the ecosystem expands, the raw number of people, companies or groups who hold power inside the ecosystem, and can affect its direction, grows as the ecosystem grows. Put another way, the power center is decentralized over time. Change inside of that ecosystem require more voices to agree that change is good. That’s healthy. And that’s an open web.

Open-source financial trading platform

GigaOm interviews Adobe.

An online carbon platform.