Platform Associates is a technology consultancy based in San Francisco, California.
We provide strategic and tactical advice and assistance to technology businesses looking to create, support and adopt platform products.
Our people have made platforms work for companies such as eBay, Yahoo!, HP, and many others.
Today TokBox launched OpenTok, a new platform that enables developers to easily integrate video conferencing and audio/video chat features into their Web sites.
Platform Associates advised TokBox on their platform product and developer outreach strategies.
Platform Associates CEO Jeffrey McManus is quoted in a piece in Redmond Channel Partner magazine on HP's impending acquisition of Palm.
Governing magazine did an interview with the BART web team on their integration with mobile social game Foursquare. In the interview the team describes the rationale for using Foursquare and how BART's embrace of open data platforms and social communications has worked for the transit district.
According to Gadget Lab, app writers have somehow just realized that the reason open source fails in customer-facing use cases (as opposed to back on the server in a locked room) is that it splits like a bead of mercury into a zillion different forms, and nobody can write apps that work across the platform [...]
Platform Associates CEO Jeffrey McManus is quoted in a story in today's Redmond Developer News. The piece discusses Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud offering in light of new product releases and aggressive pricing by competitors such as Amazon EC2.
We provide consulting services to assist you with the technical, community management, and data analysis functions of your customer community.
We have particular depth in the creation and management of third-party developer products and communities. We've done this for tiny startups as well as larger public companies such as eBay and Yahoo!. Members of our team have managed multiple million-member online communities.
Tinypug Customer Inquiry is our open-source software platform for creating customer innovation portals.
We've developed a number of proof-of-concept Facebook applications including Oscar Picks and BART Departures.
Approver.com is our document-sharing product.
