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If I was the xobni guys... I would make email a platform; as in, make it easy to develop apps for e-mail. Like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc...

• nradov 18y ago
  Which is exactly what IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has been since 1989.
  • nextmoveone 18y ago
    > Which is exactly what IBM Lotus Notes/Domino has been since 1989. No, like gmail, yahoo & hotmail.
    • nradov 18y ago
      Those are applications, not platforms. Platforms are intended to make it easy for independant developers to build value-added applications. For example: MySQL, MS Office, Common Lisp, Amazon EC2, etc.
      • nextmoveone 18y ago
        Yes, and I was saying that xobni should build out a platform for developers to create VALUE ADDING applications to gmail, yahoo & hotmail, like To-do lists, contact lists, crm's, etc... Kind of like how facebook is a platform...
        • nradov 18y ago
          It's generally unwise to a build a platform on top of something controlled by third party. Any little change that third party makes is likely to break your platform.