Category Archives: Economics

Coke’s API and the Outsourcing of Innovation

By Adam | Published: July 19, 2010
While he may not have realized it at the time, Asa Griggs Candler helped pioneer the “platform” business model used by thousands of web companies today.  But Chandler wasn’t a tech startup guy, he was the founder of The Coca-Cola Company. Coke became a platform company almost by accident.  Beginning in 1886, Coke was principally [...]
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The Data Storage Conundrum & Oscar Wilde

By Adam | Published: March 11, 2010
The Economist is a great “newspaper”, my favorite.  A couple weeks ago they did a special report on “The Data Deluge” which explored the recent and rapid expansion of data, and how to handle it.  There were two parts of the report that caught my eye because they seemed contradictory.  The first was an 1894 [...]
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Boxee Payments: Good for Content Owners, Competition for MSO’s and iTunes

By Adam | Published: January 20, 2010
Content owners aren’t the ones who need to be worried about Boxee Payments, it’s the MSO (cable), satellite, and fiber networks and online distribution platforms such as iTunes, XBox Live, and Netflix (to the extent that Netflix sees itself as a platform). The reason for this is scarcity – plain old supply and demand (most [...]
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