reCAPCHA: Crowdsourcing Intelligence
reCAPCHA has digitized books and mapped the world with crowdsourcing… Now it uses humans’ comparative advantage to crowdsource the creation of a truly intelligent computer.
reCAPCHA has digitized books and mapped the world with crowdsourcing… Now it uses humans’ comparative advantage to crowdsource the creation of a truly intelligent computer.
Through soliciting customer feedback on its pilots, Amazon Studios determines which shows to greenlight before producing a full series.
Goodreads entered a market full of incumbents as varied as local libraries, Amazon reviews, and conversations between friends, and used network effects to create value for users, authors, Amazon, and more.
Amazon is the original two-sided marketplace. While Amazon’s initial model involved warehouses and stocking every book in history, Amazon really took off when it became the internet’s primary storefront. I acknowledge that Amazon still has lots of warehouses and many […]
Why Apple Watch will be the leading platform in wearables
Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft are battling it out for dominance of voice as the next UX and for creating a truly intelligent personal assistant. Each has taken a difference approach, which will determine the strength of the network effects at play and ultimately, the success of their products and platforms.
Amazon brings together readers, publishers, authors, and advertisers in a platform/environment that creates mutual value for all stakeholders and allows Amazon to capture value for itself.
YouTube is the master of both direct and indirect network effects. Take a look…
Microsoft is a company that achieved their dominance within the PC market by capitalizing on direct network effects. Compatibility Arguably the most obvious way in which Microsoft leveraged success through direct network effects is due to the very nature of […]
Explores network effects in Apple Pay and why adoption to date has been lower than expected.