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]]> By: James Gross http://chasnote.com/2009/01/18/how-important-are-3rd-party-apps/comment-page-1/#comment-60907 James Gross Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:54:28 +0000 http://chasnote.com/?p=1434#comment-60907 You make a great point. To pile on, you could look at Google, Wordpress and Twitter's growth and associate it to their ability to court developers. Google with search Distribution and with their open architecture, LAMP. It's funny how they would never admit it, but Google and Facebook have in many respects cloned what MSFT did best in the 80's and 90's. Twitter thrives with their open API allowing developers to build on top of the platform. Most of their traffic comes from these 3rd party clients. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_twitter_clients_definitive_list.php Wordpress is driven by an open culture and agreement with developers to release their work under an open source license. Mullenweg is becoming the Jobs of his time to developers that continue to fuel their growth. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/the-state-of-wordpress-2008-awesome-growth/ You make a great point. To pile on, you could look at Google, Wordpress and Twitter’s growth and associate it to their ability to court developers. Google with search Distribution and with their open architecture, LAMP. It’s funny how they would never admit it, but Google and Facebook have in many respects cloned what MSFT did best in the 80’s and 90’s.

Twitter thrives with their open API allowing developers to build on top of the platform.
Most of their traffic comes from these 3rd party clients. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_twitter_clients_definitive_list.php

Wordpress is driven by an open culture and agreement with developers to release their work under an open source license. Mullenweg is becoming the Jobs of his time to developers that continue to fuel their growth. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/16/the-state-of-wordpress-2008-awesome-growth/

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