Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Technology that borrows from what came before is sometimes called skeuomorphic.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Subsidization helps explain why protocol networks have so much difficulty competing with corporate networks. Services tied to a community-supported network, like RSS, have no source of financing that can subsidize hosting costs to the extent that company-supported networks can.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
open-source software funding is subject to market forces that sometimes, but not always, correspond to what’s good for the internet.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The second way for a social network to maximize revenue is through promoted content.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
The structure of a network guides how that network will evolve and where wealth and power accumulate.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Blockchains invert the hardware-software power relationship, like the internet before them. With blockchains, the software governs a network of hardware devices. The
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
more value for one complement means less value for the other.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
Products that are bundled or used together are, in contrast, called complements.
Chris Dixon • Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet
that it would take 3 million pages just to print it.