Last week, I noted that former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun enrolled 160,000 students in an online computer science class. That inspired him to set up a new company, Udacity, to pursue online education. A new article in Bloomberg BusinessWeek adds some additional color to the story. Barrett Sheridan and Brendan Greeley answer a question many folks [...]
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Online Education and Self-Driving Cars
Posted in Internet, Teaching, Technology, tagged Auto, Education, Google, Teaching, Technology, Wired on January 30, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Netflix Avoids the Sunk Cost Fallacy
Posted in Business, Internet, Technology, tagged Business, Netflix, Wired on September 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The highlight of this month’s Wired magazine is a profile of Netflix and its CEO, Reed Hastings. The theme is Netflix’s strategy to thrive even as their business model changes (e.g., as on-line streaming replaces DVDs by mail). The opening paragraphs document an impressive willingness to change course: It had taken the better part of [...]
Craigslist’s Business Model
Posted in Business, Internet, Technology, tagged Bloomberg, Business, Craigslist, Strategy, Wired on August 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The magazine Wired regularly publishes some of the most interesting articles about economics and the modern world. Last month, for example, they had a great article about the antitrust threats looming over Google. The month before, it covered the economics of Somali pirates, which I never found time to write about. And the month before that, [...]
Google and Antitrust
Posted in Internet, Regulation, Technology, tagged Antitrust, Google, Microsoft, Regulation, Search, Wired, Wolfram Alpha on July 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The August Wired has a nice article about the increased antitrust scrutiny that Google is facing. (Updated July 28, 2009 I would usually insert a link to the article, but I couldn’t find one online; sorry, but I am working from the dead-tree-and-ink version that the postman dropped off.) Early on, the article notes some ironies [...]
Google: Master of the Auction
Posted in Auctions, Internet, tagged Auction, Google, Search, Wired on May 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
People usually think of eBay as the master auctioneer of the internet age. As this month’s Wired points out, however, Google is the real master.
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