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June 11, 2008

The last days of eBay

Interesting article in the London Review of Books by Thomas Jones. I always thought eBay's competitive advantage (aside from the obvious network effects) lay in its payment system (i.e., PayPal). But proprietary platforms will over time be out-competed by open and modular ones - about time selling something vent from platform to protocol.

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Posted by Espen at June 11, 2008 3:38 PM

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(Finally) the end of Finn.no?

Posted by: Morten at June 11, 2008 4:44 PM

...and it seems Mr Aamodt does not agree

http://www.na24.no/propaganda/media/article1978572.ece

Posted by: Morten at June 12, 2008 10:21 AM

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