In the future, most applications of large-scale are going to require some kind of verification platform.
It's highly significant that The Guardian newspaper has just made a major hire direct out of Yahoo! in the US to begin building some kind of development platform.
There are tools like Angie's List and others for finding contractors, though Velker says those are primarily geared toward consumers — and some end up bending the apps in order to fill the needs they have for contractors without some kind of formal platform to use.
Consider setting up some kind of recognition platform where employees can congratulate one another on a job well done.
According to the market trend company eMarketer (05.04.2014), almost one of four people globally is currently utilising some kind of social platform.
I could see the U.S. Internet companies and the U.S. government using the World Trade Organization or some other kind of platform to apply some non-human rights pressure on the wall or restrictions on foreign companies operating in China.
If it's some kind of completely new platform, that could take up to seven years.
Yet another marketing channel to watch will be Tencent's WeChat app, which is expected to take a cue from Japan's Line and South Korea's KakaoTalk messaging apps and come out with some kind of mobile gaming platform by the middle of this year.
