“Ironically enough, Wave was a great platform, may they rest in peace. But making something a platform is not going to make you an instant success. A platform needs a killer app. Facebook -- that is, the stock service they offer with walls and friends and such -- is the killer app for the Facebook Pl…”— Steve Yegge, plus.google.comTagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google
“A product is useless without a platform, or more precisely and accurately, a platform-less product will always be replaced by an equivalent platform-ized product.”— Steve Yegge, plus.google.comTagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google
“When software -- or idea-ware for that matter -- fails to be accessible to anyone for any reason, it is the fault of the software or of the messaging of the idea. It is an Accessibility failure.”— Steve Yegge, plus.google.comTagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google
“The other big realization he had was that he can't always build the right thing. I think Larry Tesler might have struck some kind of chord in Bezos when he said his mom couldn't use the goddamn website. It's not even super clear whose mom he was talking about, and doesn't really matter, because nobo…”— Steve Yegge, plus.google.comTagged: Platform, Building Software, Extensibility, Accessibility, Google