I’m really enjoying Marc Andreessen’s blog.
In a recent post, he does an excellent job explaining the concept of the “Internet platform” and outlines 3 types of platforms.
For those that don’t know, Marc helped create the Moasic web browser. Later, he co-founded Netscape, Opsware, and Ning.
For history buffs, here’s a video of Marc discussing the Moasic web browser at the first Internet Marketing Conference in San Francisco, 1994. Marc appears around 30 minutes into the video.
September 24th, 2007 at 11:54 am
I remember reading an article in Wired about Marc (with a c) driving to work in his 20k Mustang when Netscape was giving Microsoft the willies.
I am not sure I understand the whole of the article, but I suspect that Marc with Ning could be a little late to the boat.
Linkedin and myspace have already both seen to fall by the virtual wayside. Jeff