Language as a “social technology”
Via Flipboard I read an article “Why we speak” from Mark Pagel writing for the The Atlantic on the crucial role of language in our ability to trade. It offers [...]
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06, 2015
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02, 2014
Different Scalability in Different Circumstances
Our societies and economies are impacted heavily by technological change, they always have been. While some technologies - like the bitcoin protocol - allow for smaller economic actors to be relatively more economically viable then before other developments go in different directions.
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06, 2013
Trading with the speed of light: is it desirable?
A regularly recurring theme at Red Planet Dust is the impact of IT-driven trends on decision-making and robosourcing, marketplaces and exchanges. "High Frequency Trading" is an exemplary example were technology [...]
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04, 2013
Trust in an Inter-connected World
(This is part 3 of an article on crypto-currencies at Red Planet Dust. See for Part 1, Part 2) Human collaboration is based on trust. We do not have a [...]
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03, 2013
Scalability is Not One-dimensional Nor is it Evenly Spread
"Scalability" is a key aspect in today's dynamics at the macro level in the development of the internet and hence our economic environment. At the micro level companies want to [...]
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03, 2013
Trend of scaling down hits wall of regulations
Marketplaces enable individuals and small business to offer products and services to a wider audience in a structured manner as ever before. Laws and regulations are not always designed to [...]
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03, 2013
Not B2C vs B2B, but “structured” vs “not structured” relationships
To describe the type of market(s) a company is operating in it is very common to use the B2B or B2C distinction. But is this distinction the right one to [...]
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03, 2013
For marketplaces liquidity is key
Often the economic contribution from marketplaces and wholesalers (as a subcategory of marketplaces who act as middleman taking control and often even ownership of the products: e.g. eBay is a [...]
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03, 2013
Marketplaces as driver for scalability
With a background in wholesale I have followed the development of marketplaces on the internet with a keen eye. Marketplaces are instrumental in the emancipation of the individual or small [...]