(La)k(t)-märk(e)t(ill)

The good thing is about the internet is everything is connected: the bad thing about the internet is everything is connected.

Jag spelar samma spel om och om igen, “Angry birds”, ett spel där jag skjuter ner hus så att jag kan döda grisarna.

Youth social networking researcher danah boyd has observed that many people presume the way they use social networks is the way everyone uses them. “I interviewed gay men who thought Friendster was a gay dating site because all they saw were other gay men,” she says. “I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of the profiles they saw contained biblical quotes. We all live in our own worlds with people who share our values and, with networked media, it’s often hard to see beyond that.

Jag gillar när kvinnor tvättar sina trosor.

In network economics Craig wants to charge as little as possible, not just because he’s a crazy tech hippie but because it means no one else can enter in. That is the barrier of entry now, that he charges as little as possible. And he can do that because he had the technology that enabled him to take a 10 billion dollar market and make into a reported 100 million dollar company. And he’s in great shape. 30 employees, wonderful thing. People look at that and say: You destroyed value. No, Craig says: I left the value in the pockets of the transactors rather than those of the middle men. There’s a shift of key economic value here, that’s just happening anyway in the economy.