Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
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Platforms, Ecosystems, and Aggregators
Great things are usually made by specialists, not by all of us. These specialists can create things that the rest of us want. This means that networks can emerge with two groups: one that supplies something valuable, and another which consumes that service. This is where the most valuable type of Internet company enters the game: aggregators.
Uncharted Territories • Platforms and Aggregators
Platforms facilitate a relationship between users and third-party developers. Aggregators, on the other hand, intermediate the relationship between users and third-party developers.
Nikhil Basu Trivedi • Shopify and The Key Decision for Business-in-a-Box Platforms
The Internet has made distribution (of digital goods) free, neutralizing the advantage that pre-Internet distributors leveraged to integrate with suppliers. Secondly, the Internet has made transaction costs zero, making it viable for a distributor to integrate forward with end users/consumers at scale.... See more
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Ben Thompson • Aggregator's AI Risk
Making the internet work for creators
The second reason why Ben’s milestone is significant is that he, better than anyone else, has identified and articulated the force that has overwhelmingly shaped online media over the past decade: Aggregation Theory.
Ben’s theory describes how and why a few major platforms have come to dominate the flow of infor... See more
The second reason why Ben’s milestone is significant is that he, better than anyone else, has identified and articulated the force that has overwhelmingly shaped online media over the past decade: Aggregation Theory.
Ben’s theory describes how and why a few major platforms have come to dominate the flow of infor... See more