Tagged: Business model

Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser – WSJ.com

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Apple Adds Do-Not-Track Tool to New Browser – WSJ.com. Interesting. Now it is just Google that doesn’t have a built-in way to block advertising. Really puts them at odds with their business model. I wrote about Keep my Opt Outs here.

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Collaborative Consumption (via Carbon Voyage’s Blog)

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I reviewed this book a few weeks ago and really liked it. Now you can watch a video where some of the principles are explained. It seems only practical to use these kind of ideas to help resource use become more manageable.

I went along to two events run by NESTA around the issue of collaborative consumption this week. There wasn’t a dedicated focus on sustainability, but it is clear that collaborative consumption is closely linked to sustainability. Both days were facilitated by Rachel Botsman, who wrote What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption. It was really useful, particularly in allowing me to reflect on some of the behaviour related aspects … Read More

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Collaborative consumption (via Musings of a Business Engineer)

I just wrote a book review about this, but there is a nice video here as well. I really liked these concepts to save money and make connections and live them myself.

Collaborative consumption An interesting TEDtalk I’ve come across —Rachel Botsman on the “new” internet-enabled sharing and swapping business models that she is labeling “Collaborative Consumption“. In this 16 minute TEDtalk from Sydney Australia in 2010 Rachel presents her views on why this trend is an emerging reality that will have a profound impact over the next decades … Read More

via Musings of a Business Engineer

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The Asymmetry of Waste in the Age of Abundance — A Reversal of Scarcity’s Balance (via The Scholarly Kitchen)

Interesting ideas.

The Asymmetry of Waste in the Age of Abundance -- A Reversal of Scarcity's Balance Image via Wikipedia In the age of abundance, there’s more information than ever — more options, more output, more sources. News is available 24 hours per day from dozens of sources. From email boxes to Facebook to Twitter to widgets on various sites, information comes flooding in at us. While abundance spills over the passive filters that evolved during the era of scarcity, it also creates more choice. And, oddly, it creates less waste for the c … Read More

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