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The future for platform holders is cooperation, not just competition | Opinion

When an industry changes -- even quite radically -- it can be hard to pinpoint the moment that the shift began. There a…

Tools and Platforms

Defining, discerning between the two.

Platform Studies

The Platform Studies book series has been established to promote the investigation of underlying computing systems and how they enable, constrain, shape and support the creative work that is done on them. The series investigates the foundations of digital media — the computing systems, both hardware and software, that developers and users depend upon for artistic, literary, and gaming development. Books in the series will certainly vary in their approaches, but they will all also share certain features: A focus on a single platform or a closely related family of platforms; Technical rigor and in-depth investigation of how computing technologies work; An awareness of and discussion of how computing platforms exist in a context of culture and society, being developed based on cultural concepts and then contributing to culture in a variety of ways — for instance, by affecting how people perceive computing.

Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance

T1 - Stuck in the middleware with you: the challenges of capitalizing a market-oriented approach to platform governance

The platformization of cultural production: Theorizing the contingent cultural commodity

This article explores how the political economy of the cultural industries changes through platformization: the penetration of economic and infrastructural extensions of online platforms into the web, affecting the production, distribution, and circulation of cultural content. It pursues this investigation in critical dialogue with current research in business studies, political economy, and software studies. Focusing on the production of news and games, the analysis shows that in economic terms platformization entails the replacement of two-sided market structures with complex multisided platform configurations, dominated by big platform corporations. Cultural content producers have to continuously grapple with seemingly serendipitous changes in platform governance, ranging from content curation to pricing strategies. Simultaneously, these producers are enticed by new platform services and infrastructural changes. In the process, cultural commodities become fundamentally “contingent,” that is increasingly modular in design and continuously reworked and repackaged, informed by datafied user feedback.

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A collection of open source frameworks for helping designers and engineers to grow at work

DesignABetterBusiness.tools | Tool Overview

Search and download all of the tools from the book Design A Better Business

Platform Cooperativism Consortium | A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.

A hub that helps you start, grow, or convert to platform co-ops.

Commons Computer

A modern team knowledge base for your internal documentation, product specs, support answers, meeting notes, onboarding, & more…

Oktana

Utopian R&D collective specialized in building software products.

Platform Economies

The world feels split into three buckets:

Identity is the Platform

This is the talk I gave at Mindtrek in Tampere, Finland. Slides are available here: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2009/10/01/identity-is-the-platform/

CNCF Platform Working Group Launched Platform Engineering Maturity Model

In April 2023, in time for Kubecon Amsterdam, CNCF Platforms WG (working group) released a Platforms Definition white paper, defining…

Platform Design: Interfaces, Incentives, Emergence & Second-Order Thinking

Platform design isn't just product design at scale. Learn the four concepts that set it apart—with a detailed Lego case study showing how great platforms enable creativity.

How to Make Money from Open Source Platforms - Linux.com

John Mark Walker is the Open Source Ecosystems Manager at Red Hat. I never thought I’d have to write this article in 2015. By now, I thought it would be self-evident how to derive revenue from open source software platforms. But alas, no. Despite the fact that the success of open source software is unparalleled and […]