A little while ago I wrote about the importance of content platforms: "Content platforms" are emerging that are designed to solve precisely this problem. A content platform is a standardized means of presenting information. Take, for instance, Yelp. If you want restaurant information, it gives you a list of possibilities with a ranking that can be …
Disruption versus competition
I was provoked into writing this post today when Horace Dediu tweeted the following chart: The chart is a thing of beauty although we should take it with a grain of salt. It shows how value has been transferred from a set of incumbents to Apple over the last four years. It has some choices …
Is privacy an antitrust problem?
Privacy has just recently entered antitrust discussions. The debate has focused on whether concerns about privacy should be used as a criterion to regulate large firms that look like monopolies. The question which US Senator Al Franken raises is whether a reduction in consumer harm due to privacy erosion should be treated in a similar …
April fools round for tech and econ
It is that season again. Today is April fools day and the Internet celebrates. Here is a convenient round up of contributions from tech and economics. Google: as they do every year, Google enjoy a good prank. This year Google maps has an 8-bit mode, Gmail gets taps, Chrome gets multitasking, there's Street Roo and Sergey …
Digitopoly 