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Tumblr and Yahoo’s portal strategy

By Joshua Gans On May 20, 2013 · Add Comment · In Platforms

Last week I posited that Yahoo were engaging in a renewed portal strategy: basically, trying to be in a position to capture readers’ attention for 30 minutes a day and, as a result, have a regular and manageable sales proposition to advertisers. Today, Yahoo announced it was buying Tumblr [...]

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Google’s Multi-Front War

By Joshua Gans On May 15, 2013 · 4 Comments · In Platforms

Today Larry Page at Google IO said he was tired of hearing about how Google is fighting with this company and that.

“We should be building great things that don’t exist. Not every new technology is zero-sum.”

But this was at the tail-end of Google’s keynote at the conference [...]

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Will Yahoo! return to its portal roots?

On May 14, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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My latest at Medium.

Many tech writers have a soft spot for Yahoo!. It was one of the first big dotcom companies and it didn’t succeed enough to be seen as a real threat to much. What is more, beyond its first few years as The Player in the portal [...]

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Goodbye Software Ownership?

On May 7, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Adobe announced yesterday that it was moving to a subscription model for what appears to be virtually all of its software. A subscription model has existed for about a year now; basically, for $50 per month ($600 per year) you get all of their creative software. For students and teachers, there [...]

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Amazon’s Comical Kindle Pricing Catch-22

On Apr 23, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Today, this popped up on my Twitter feed.

Bill Amend, the author of Foxtrot, was trying to use the Kindle Comic Creator tool to publish his successful collections on the Kindle. He took a close look at the terms and conditions [...]

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Crowd-Sourcing and Crowd-Hunting and the Boston Marathon Bomb Brothers.

On Apr 21, 2013 By Shane Greenstein
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How did the Boston Marathon Bombing brothers get caught? The release of videos played a key role. This decision to release this video has been called many things – a risky decision, a calculated bet, a crucial turning point, and a fortunate use of crowd-sourcing.

Let’s not get sloppy with the use of modern lingo. [...]

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Paul Milgrom’s 65th Birthday

On Apr 20, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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My PhD advisor turns 65 today and here, at Stanford, we are having a conference in his honor. I made some remarks that I thought I’d post here.

I am here to talk about Paul’s contributions to applied theory. While Susan and Yeon-Koo have talked about theoretical contributions that so many in [...]

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Blogging Citation Norms

On Apr 17, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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[Note: This post is 'wonkish,' a word which here means you may have to think harder than normal while reading it.]

One thing I learned at the Kauffman Economic Bloggers Forum last week is that there is angst among the professional (i.e., non-academic) bloggers about citation and re-stating the arguments of [...]

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Future of Blogging

On Apr 15, 2013 By Joshua Gans
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Last week I attended the annual Kauffman Foundation Economics and Financial Weblogging Forum in Kansas City. It was the first time I had met so many of those bloggers that I read daily. I learned that the non-academic bloggers are young, very young. One of them is just out of [...]

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I Get My Wish!

On Apr 11, 2013 By Joel Waldfogel

Last summer I expressed an interest in meeting musician David Lowery to discuss the evolution of the music industry.

Long story short: we’re getting together at the University of Minnesota next Friday, April 19 for an event entitled “Resolved: Napster is the Best/Worst Thing That’s Ever Happened to Music.”

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