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Personalised student assessment firm Xamcheck gets $1.8M funding from Aspada | VCCircle Money to invested in backend technology and expanding operations.

Software Is Reorganizing the World | WIRED When cloud formations take physical shape, neither their scale nor duration has an upper bound: We may begin to see cloud towns, then cloud cities, and ultimately cloud countries. At first this sounds rather implausible. Perhaps the internet will spur a wave of internal migrations as online communit…

What makes a good API?

The art of creating simple but flexible APIs - Jos de Jong A while ago I read the blog post Ranging Near and Far by Scott Sauyet. On Echo JS, Scott titled a link to this blog “Choosing simple APIs over …

The next layer of attractive profits will accrue to companies that build data-backed applications in which the data gets better the more people use the system. This is what I’ve called Web 2.0.

Network Effects in Data - O'Reilly Radar Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart of Web 2.0 made me realize that I use the term network effects somewhat differently, and not in the simp…

Managing Platforms Is a Human Art With platforms, you are not managing software; you are managing people.

How bundling benefits sellers and buyers | chris dixon's blog But this reasoning misses the economic logic behind bundling: under assumptions that apply to most information-based businesses, bundling benefits buyers and sellers.