#platform 3

[closeted-goth]

got to disembark onto the forbidden roma st platform just now

[bjgaulton]

Platform 3 by Blair Gaulton

Platform 3 Sour platform looks like a ravaged skating rink. (C)BJG(Blair Gaulton)Feb 2015

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[technodad]

[Uber](https://www.uber.com/about), best known for it's on-demand car service, has created an API and partner program to allow other sites to let their customers schedule transportation thru Uber, as well as an affiliate program to create a business incentive to use the service. This is a good example of what [Marshall Van Alstyne discussed at The Open Group's Boston conference](http://blog.opengroup.org/2014/08/13/qa-with-marshall-van-alstyne-professor-boston-university-school-of-management-and-research-scientist-mit-center-for-digital-business/): > I think of “platform” as a combination of two things. One, a set of standards or components that folks can take up and use for production of goods and services. The second thing is the rules of play, or the governance model – who has the ability to participate, how do you resolve conflict, and how do you divide up the royalty streams, or who gets what? You can think of it as the two components of the platform—the open standard together with the governance model. (Disclosure: I work for The Open Group.)

[xera121]

Platform 3: On the train waiting to go home ;-) Warmer than being on the platform.