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Google maps doubles down on network effects to stave off formidable competition

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Google Maps has evolved into a platform boasting powerful direct and indirect network effects. In October 2004, Google acquired Sydney-based Where 2 Technologies to create web application Google Maps [1]. At the time, it may have seemed that Google Maps was purely a […]

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Artsy: Sequencing the Art World’s Genomes

This post was originally published on the Digital Initiative’s classroom blogging platform. Can big data revolutionize even the fine arts? Today, the number of people in the U.S. who buy art as a percentage of people who can afford art is 3%. Carter Cleveland’s vision is to increase that number by an order of magnitude. […]

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