Publish, bħal, u jsibu: bini ta 'ekosistema miftuħa u curated

Ħafna ekosistemi bħall-ħwienet app huma jew miftuħa jew curated. Iżda għaliex ma nistgħu jkollhom kemm? Well, nistgħu — kulma għandek bżonn hija tliet verbi: tippubblika, isibu, u bħal. Li tmur għal teknoloġija u kull ħaġa oħra.

Normalment ikun hemm żewġ għażliet meta inti tixtieq li tippubblika app: tippubblikaha għal xi ħaġa bħall-IOS App Aħżen (fejn in-nies se jsibu app tiegħek, imma reviżuri Apple jista 'jiċħad sottomissjoni tiegħek) jew biss poġġih fuq il-websajt tiegħek (fejn huwa faċli biex tippubblika, iżda hemm ebda ħadd garanzija se jarawha.) Not the greatest set of options.

Isn’t there a way to combine the strengths of both of these to make for the best possible experience for both publishers and consumers? I think there is. It’s called an open and curated ecosystem. Let’s take a look at:

  • What open u curated ecosystems are
  • Examples of open and curated ecosystems
  • What you need to make an open and curated ecosystem
  • Examples of these ecosystems beyond just technology

and see if we can discover something about the power of crowdsourcing, innovation, and the three verbs tippubblika, isibu, u bħal.

Curated vs. open ecosystems

The iOS App Store and open internet, among others, are app ecosystemsplaces where apps can be published and found. And I think the big factors that differentiate one ecosystem from another are whether the ecosystem is open, where anyone can publish apps and whether it is curated, where the best apps rise to the top and users are assured quality apps. That’s the major difference between the iOS store and the internet at large, which I mentioned earlier.

Let’s look at examples of curated and open ecosystems and what differentiates them.

5 apps imprezzabbli produttività b'xejn għall-kulleġġ

Ftit snin ilu I kiteb dwar apps utli għall-iskola għolja — iżda issa kulleġġ huwa hawnhekk, u dan iġib sett ġdid sħiħ ta 'talbiet. Peress I waslu fil-Harvard, I kellna biex jagħmlu aktar, u apps tiegħi kellhom jagħmlu aktar wisq.

Dawn apps ġodda jeħtieġu li jimxu fuq il-pjattaformi kollha (Windows, Mac, Android, IOS), sync ħarir bejniethom, u għinni iżommu tiegħi data organizzata. Huma għandhom ikunu versatili, robusta, u faċli għall-użu. U dawn għandhom ikunu ħielsa.

With that in mind, here are the five apps that I’ve relied on most at Harvard and that I recommend to anyone in college or anywhere else in life. They’re ranked in order of usefulness.

Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, Pocket
5 ħielsa, essential apps for college: Evernote, Wunderlist, Mailbox, Sunrise, and Pocket.

Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (more on that later)
  2. Adobe Flash (sorry, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found: