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Here comes everybody: Why AirBnB is so disruptive

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Here comes everybody: Why AirBnB is so disruptive
Description As Clay Shirky noted in his book “Here Comes Everybody,” even behavior that has existed before — such as sharing information with our friends and family, or connecting with people who have similar interests — becomes qualitatively different when hundreds of thousands or even tens of millions of people are involved. That’s what Mathew Ingram thinks they are seeing with things like AirBnB and Kickstarter and ride-sharing services like Lyft, or job-outsourcing services like TaskRabbit: they aren’t just an incremental change in human behavior, they are a fundamentally disruptive one.

SOURCE LINK to the full article: http://gigaom.com/2012/09/23/here-comes-everybody-why-airbnb-is-so-disruptive/
Tags: AirBnB, Craigslist, Crowdfunding, Crowdsourcing, disruptive social businesses, Kickstarter, Lyft, ride sharing, TaskRabbit, twitter
Claire Mackay Posted by Claire Mackay
Sep 23, 2012 11:48 pm GMT Viewed 1163 times
Author: Mathew Ingram Source
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