发布, 喜欢, 并找到: 建设一个开放,生态策划

大多数生态系统,如应用程序商店是开放或策划的. 但是,为什么我们不能兼得? 良好, 我们可以 — 所有你需要的是3动词: 发布, 发现, 和 喜欢. 这也适用于技术和其他任何.

通常有两种选择,当你要发布一个应用程序: 它发布到像iOS的App Store中 (那里的人们会发现你的应用程序, 但苹果审阅者可以拒绝你的提交) 或者只是把它放在你的网站 (它很容易发布, 但也不能保证任何人会看到它。) 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 opencurated 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 发布, 发现, 和 喜欢.

Curated vs. open ecosystems

The iOS App Store and open internet, among others, 有 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 高校宝贵的免费生产力应用程序

几年前,我写了一篇关于 高中有用的应用程序 — 但现在的大学是在这里, 它带来了一整套新需求.我到哈佛, 我不得不做更多, 和我的应用程序不得不做更多的太.

这些新的应用程序需要 运行在所有平台 (视窗, 苹果, Android的, 的iOS), 无缝同步 它们之间, 并帮助我保持 数据组织. 他们必须是 多才多艺, 健壮, 和 易于使用的. 他们必须要 免费.

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 免费, 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 愤怒的小鸟 (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 (后来更多)
  2. Adobe Flash (遗憾, iDevice users)

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