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25 Feb This post is from from my other blog here submit_url = 'http://hyveup.blogspot.com/2008/02/directory-versus-platform-why-i-love.html';Believe it or not, the two get mixed up sometimes. Why? Because both bottle up information in a database-like structure. It becomes a different tool depending on what it is requested to do.A directory is a database of information: You send requests and the directory retrieves this information for you automatically.A platform is an information-distributed entity: It sends and receive data in a dynamic manner.  To take an easy example, let's look at the Techcrunch's Crunchbase.Before, the Crunchbase was only a directory. Visitors to the site could search companies by name or keyword. Basically, visitors had to go inside ...Click here to read the entire blog post
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