There are a couple of good platform stories this morning. At the Graphing Social Patterns conference, Charlene Li called on Mark Zuckerberg to make Facebook completely open. She thinks that that move would totally preempt all the other players. AND, in mobile platforms Microsoft announced a deal with Nokia to put their Silverlight platform onto all Nokia Series 60 and 40 handsets. What does this mean for Adobe? Also in mobile, Google announced that their offline platform, Google Gears, would be available on Windows Mobile later this year. Does anyone use gears? Does this mean anything?
And lastly, in the wake of Ad Man Paul Tilley's suicide (apparently after being criticized on two different blogs), we'll debate how nasty the blogosphere really is, and whether it needs to change.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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