 Your new post is loading...
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
May 7, 2016 2:22 AM
|
Over the past 10+ years, thousands of people have asked me “what is wirearchy?” There’s one common misconception that I’d like to clear up first, which is that wirearchy is mainly about technology. If anything, wirearchy is about the power and effectiveness of people working together through connection and collaboration … taking responsibility individually and collectively rather than Read More →
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
April 14, 2016 3:59 AM
|
Governmental control is nothing compared to what Google is up to: the company is creating an unprecedented form of surveillance capitalism.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
January 1, 2016 1:29 PM
|
Amazon is following a decades-long model for the tech industry. It begins with the rollout of cheap or “free” services – typically based on the efforts of others — offered at minimal cost in order to capture a monopoly share of the market. Once that monopoly is obtained, the tech vendor uses it to extract …
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
September 17, 2015 12:21 PM
|
"what are these replacement economic entities going to look like when the firm sheds transactions? Who will operate and own them? Will they be bedded in the “society at large” or not? There is an implication in Kilpi’s work that these are not intermediary structures, the WTF essay assumes they will be set in these newfangled Internet networks and called “Plaftforms”. However, if you look at the example given in the essay as a harbinger of the new – Uber – it is clearly just another Firm, using t’Internet rather than t’Phone. As to value exchange, it remains a centrally placed intermediary. All links lead to and from Uber. All transactions (logistical and financial) are routed through Uber’s servers, within its own network. If this is a “new” network economy, it is a highly centralised and closed network, with all nodes owned and run by Uber, as any before. All that “society at large” is doing is supplying or ordering a taxi ride and paying for it at the edge if the network, as it did before, just that now its by App transactions rather than ‘phone or hail ones.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
September 2, 2015 1:57 PM
|
Excerpted from Kevin Carson: “An article at Medium (Tim O’Reilly, “Networks and the Nature of the Firm — What’s the Future of Work?” August 14) describes Uber and Airbnb as “textbook examples” of “the way that networks trump traditional forms of corporate organization, and how they are changing traditional ways of managing that organization.” Um, …
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
July 1, 2015 12:24 PM
|
Since John Doerr introduced goal setting to Google and its staff of 40 in 1999, the company has publicly shared its views on the value of setting Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). As I watched last spring’s Google Ventures StartUp Lab workshop again about “How Google sets goals: OKRs,” I was reminded how far we’ve come, yet how much we still have to do to move businesses forward into goal science.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
May 18, 2015 3:11 PM
|
The American middle class is in steep decline, which has been true for 3-4 decades but accelerated rapidly after 2008. Converging U.S. and global macroeconomic change has created a millennial generation in fierce competition for opportunity and armed with the Internet in the search to reduce costs, find income and get ahead. Inter-generationally, there are more mice, the mice are more hungry, and there is less cheese in life’s maze.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
May 6, 2015 3:51 PM
|
Australia's Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, had nothing but appreciation for one of the sharing economy's shining stars, Airbnb, on Wednesday at the CeBIT technology conference in Sydney.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
April 12, 2015 2:21 PM
|
The tech industry is morally and ethically bankrupt, and it's starting to take its toll on ordinary Americans
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
March 6, 2015 6:32 PM
|
Startups like Uber and Airbnb, which form the core of the new "sharing economy," can have a particularly positive effect on people with lower incomes, according to a new report.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 20, 2015 2:02 AM
|
How would you like to live in an economy where robots do everything that can be predictably programmed in advance, and almost all profits go to the robots’ owners?
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 16, 2015 1:33 PM
|
Airbnb and Uber are the twin pillars of the sharing economy, two enormously successful startups in San Francisco that have transformed entire industries.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 5, 2015 3:28 PM
|
In the wake of the partnership hatched between Uber and CMU to further the former’s cause of research into mapping and autonomous transportation, it has surfaced that Google, one of the major investors in Uber, is planning on competing against Uber...
|
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
April 20, 2016 3:00 AM
|
The TPP is a bad deal for Internet users. But these tech companies just endorsed it.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
April 5, 2016 12:41 PM
|
Facebook has been talking on and on this past year about turning Messenger into a more than just a chat service, and a service being launched today illustrates exactly what that future look
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
November 2, 2015 3:46 PM
|
Dear Branko, thanks for sharing your very provocative post. It’s hard to know what the future will hold, but at the moment I think the most realistic scenario is that work will be carved up in smaller and smaller tasks and gigs/microgigs/nanogigs (what you call task T broken into T1, T2,…Tn) and then many of …
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
September 14, 2015 1:35 PM
|
“What has happened in effect is that though the processing capability of a “wired” customer or service supplier has gone up dramatically, this typically has not facilitated any major societal value shift or new societal network emergence. If anything, the history of the Internet since c 2010 is an increasing walling off of what were …
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
September 1, 2015 2:17 PM
|
What Uber and Airbnb are “textbook examples” of is what Michel Bauwens of the Foundation for P2P Alternatives calls “netarchical capitalism”: an intermediate organizational form in which the owners of proprietary platforms use them to extract value from the users. As a friend on Twitter observed the same day the article was written, the capitalists at Uber and Airbnb extract usury from workers’ use of their own physical capital.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
June 17, 2015 4:27 AM
|
Amazon is apparently enlisting everyday humans in its network of endless online shopping delivery. The WSJ reports that the ecommerce giant is working on an..
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
May 8, 2015 3:38 PM
|
Companies like Uber are shaking up traditional industries--but will all this disruption create more sustainable businesses?
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
May 5, 2015 4:06 PM
|
The backlash against unethical labour practices in the “collaborative sharing economy” has been overplayed. Recently, The Washington Post, New York Times and Guardian started to speak out against online labour brokerages like Taskrabbit, Handy, and Uber because of their utter lack of concern for the workers.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
April 8, 2015 11:57 AM
|
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin spaceflight company are making preparations to launch their suborbital spaceship skyward with a newly designed rocket.
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 24, 2015 2:46 PM
|
Companies like Uber, FancyHands, Airbnb and Snagajob are flourishing, driven by technology, a slow economic recovery and consumer demand. But what does that mean for today's workers?
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 17, 2015 3:34 PM
|
If Uber, Lyft, and others don't stop relying on contract workers, business could crumble. Is it time for a new definition of employee?
|
|
Scooped by
jean lievens
February 14, 2015 8:47 AM
|
Airbnb and Uber are the twin pillars of the sharing economy, two enormously successful startups in San Francisco that have transformed entire industries.
|
