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In the Web2 era, platforms like Twitter and Facebook ran powerful but temporary versions of the “commoditize the complement” strategy early in their growth phase. By giving away their products and APIs for free, the platforms were able to attract invaluable social graphs and user data, which in turn helped attract an ecosystem of third-party... See more
Jesse Walden • Product vs. Protocol: Finding a Balance in Web3 – Variant
Getting a job through compulsive tweeting marked my first exposure to the digital attention economy that was beginning to monopolize the Internet. I grasped a new formula: content = attention = followers = profit. Anything that made enough noise online could be monetized in one way or another. My online presence increasingly felt like a carefully... See more
Kyle Chayka • Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet | The New Yorker
For reach and ingenuity, it is hard to excel Golem. Calling itself, with partial felicity, an “Airbnb for computers,” it offers to rent your computer’s resources when you are not using them. Then it organizes these resources with the resources of others into a virtual supercomputer.
George Gilder • Life After Google
Likewise in the Entrepreneurial Age, tech companies don’t own the multitude to which their users belong, yet they exploit it as a strategic resource thanks to the superior design of their applications, the regular and systematic monitoring of their users’ activity, and the increasing returns to scale they derive from networks. It’s not about
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