Absolutely Scrabulous
Facebook really took off because of the “apps” offered online–especially games like “Scrabulous,” a spitting image of the word game… Read More »Absolutely Scrabulous
January 2008
Fascinating Site with Great Lectures
Mark Schultz and others have been kind enough to indulge me with tips about giving a talk. Mark not surprisingly… Read More »Fascinating Site with Great Lectures
Alaska Doesn’t Have a Law School
But John Havelock thinks it should: For a generation, Alaska has been the only state that does not maintain at… Read More »Alaska Doesn’t Have a Law School
Infrastructure and Class
Brett’s insightful work on infrastructure has conditioned me to think carefully about stories that invoke the term in the news.… Read More »Infrastructure and Class
Virtual Enterprises
Somewhere between conceptions of the firm as proprietary, hierarchical production mechanism and the firm as distributed, commons- and peer-based institution lies an emerging class of virtual firms that mix and match sensibilities: some peer-based, some hierarchical; some commons-based, some proprietary. My hunch is that these sorts of organisms are going to be the most interesting “class” of firms to watch over the next few years, as technology and related systems allow enterprises to fulfill the promise of a de-materialized market. Coase taught us to look for transactions and information costs. What happens when those decline to nearly zero? What else should we look for?Read More »Virtual Enterprises