Comments on: Amazon, eBay, FaceBook: the risk of building your business on a third-party platform http://www.itwriting.com/blog/570-amazon-ebay-facebook-the-risk-of-building-your-business-on-a-third-party-platform.html Tech writing blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:25:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Tino Paz http://www.itwriting.com/blog/570-amazon-ebay-facebook-the-risk-of-building-your-business-on-a-third-party-platform.html/comment-page-1#comment-86770 Tino Paz Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:15:09 +0000 http://www.itwriting.com/blog/?p=570#comment-86770 Singling out Amazon, eBay and Facebook helps make your point more concrete. The underlying problem, however, applies to the whole Web 2.0 movement (used as a metaphor for the current trends, not as an explicitly organized effort). Google, Salesforce, etc., etc. could all be added to your list. Or are there significant differences between how various businesses implement their Software as a Service (SaaS) models? What are the critical criteria that end-users (individuals, groups, businesses) should be evaluating before surfing the Web 2.0 wave? Or are you pointing out an innate and inevitable reality that we simply have to come to terms with? Tino Singling out Amazon, eBay and Facebook helps make your point more concrete. The underlying problem, however, applies to the whole Web 2.0 movement (used as a metaphor for the current trends, not as an explicitly organized effort). Google, Salesforce, etc., etc. could all be added to your list. Or are there significant differences between how various businesses implement their Software as a Service (SaaS) models? What are the critical criteria that end-users (individuals, groups, businesses) should be evaluating before surfing the Web 2.0 wave? Or are you pointing out an innate and inevitable reality that we simply have to come to terms with?

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