As location-based social networks gain serious traction, its inevitable that that these applications will become full-fledged platforms.
With Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, Line and a others iterating as quickly as possible and turning their messaging apps into full-fledged platforms, Apple needed to do something.
While InSite is the full-fledged platform that we are proposing and designing, our team will implement and build a functioning app for only the Albany Bulb, using curated content from the UC Berkeley Global Urban Humanities Initiative.
Forbes.com is evolving into a full-fledged platform and a social media operating system for business enthusiasts.
Data protocols are at the heart of E-mail's transformation from a killer application to a full-fledged platform.
So, the team is building Disconnect into a full-fledged platform that allows users to control who does what with their data online, Kennish says.
Salesforce CRM, after all, is basically just a browser-based version of software that originated long before the Web became a full-fledged platform and way, way before the Web went mobile.
The important thing that helped with investors was communicating that Nitrous.IO isn't just a developer tool, but a full-fledged platform that helps businesses and individuals streamline their entire development workflow.
The site, which bills itself as the "world's largest professional network," has over the last few years morphed from a place to store an electronic version of your resume and occasionally look for a job to a full-fledged platform for news, commentary and discussion.
"You have the lower tier bowls that from many perspectives are looking for an awareness play, and then you look at the new College Football Playoff partners spending tremendous amounts of money, and it becomes a full fledged platform for them," said Mann, whose company is the sports marketing agency of record for Northwestern Mutual around the Rose Bowl.
Box has evolved into more than just a file storage platform, and has become a full-fledged, multi-platform collaborative application where businesses can actually communicate about document updates, sync files remotely, and even add features from Salesforce, Google Apps, NetSuite, Yammer and others.
