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Software ecosystems

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In a second year in a row Facebook has won the top prizes at TechCrunch (http://www.techcrunch.com/), a leading techie web blog. This post suggests some clues on why Facebook keeps getting more popular, both among users globally and the digerati. But first some background. In a recent blog post on information technology (ip/predictions-2009-information-and-communication-technology-pa-6.html) we used the term software ecosystem . It's worth exploring this term. It reflects the increasing importance of intellectual property, software licensing and online collaboration. In the recent post we looked at software ecosystems being formed around smartphones such as the iPhone. Google's Android also has an ecosystem, see its developers page (http://code.google.com/android/) and explore the platform agnostic nature of Google Mobile (http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/).

Full post as published by Lightbulb IP blog on January 12, 2009 (boomark / email).

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