The next service marketplace wave: Vertical market-networks

Ivan Smolnikov Contributor Ivan Smolnikov is the CEO and founder of Smartcat, the market network platform for the translation industry. The last few decades have produced many successful marketplaces. We went from goods marketplace pioneers such as eBay and Amazon to simple service marketplaces such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash, Upwork, Thumbtack, TaskRabbit, and Fiverr. But […]

Why is Facebook doing robotics research?

It’s a bit strange to hear that the world’s leading social network is pursuing research in robotics rather than, say, making search useful, but Facebook is a big organization with many competing priorities. And while these robots aren’t directly going to affect your Facebook experience, what the company learns from them could be impactful in […]

How social networks are recruiting teenage extremists

In March, in the aftermath of the Christchurch shooting, I tried to distinguish between internet problems and platform problems. Internet problems arise from the existence of a free and open network that connects most of the world; platform problems arise from features native to the platform. The fact that anti-vaccination zealots can meet online is […]

Destiny – Motivational Video

Facebook: on.fb.me/R8jxxV Instagram: http://bit.ly/1fjzPrZ SoundCloud: http://bit.ly/Mon20y Twitter: http://bit.ly/1nNEv30 Speakers: Les Brown: facebook.com/Brown.Les, Steve Jobs, Kevin Spacey, Music: M83 – Fearful Odds YouTube: http://bit.ly/1MQLH8k facebook: on.fb.me/1oQ9GHs All copyrights go to their respective owners. Cast: Mateusz M Tags: destiny, mateusz m, motivation, motivational video and inspiration Read more: vimeo.com