Showing posts with label online. Show all posts
Showing posts with label online. Show all posts
Monday, May 20, 2024

The labor market for OnlyFans chatters

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 Here's a story by a professional writer and journalist, who appears to be a middle-aged dad, about his efforts to find and then master ...
Monday, April 13, 2020

Teaching online: Singapore, NYC react to Zoombombing of online classes

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Some of us are old enough to remember when email didn't come with security concerns.  Things are moving faster these days, so it's ...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Signaling and matching in an online labor market, by Horton and Johari

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Here's a paper on signaling and matching in a prominent but un-named online labor market that is readily identifiable. Engineering a ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

An open marketplace for reinsurance

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Tremor Technologies Inc. has announced its new online marketplace for reinsurance.  Here's the press release: Tremor Technologies, I...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Safe exchange zones

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Marketplaces aren't just tools to bring potential transactors together, they can also seek to make transactions (physically) safe.  Cri...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

More Backpage (.com) news

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From the Washington Post: Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer pleads guilty in three states, agrees to testify against other website officials &quo...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Online anonymity, bitcoin, illegal drug markets, and traditional law enforcement

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If you were a Silk Road customer, you'll have to find another online drug market:  F.B.I. Seizes Silk Road, an Online Drug Market, and ...
Saturday, October 6, 2012

The online market for tailors

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One of the markets that the internet seems likely to change profoundly is the market for custom clothing. Bloomberg news had a recent  repor...
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Saturday, September 15, 2012

Auction design within online games

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This looks worth following up on...Michael Giberson reports Poor market design causing high prices in Diablo III auction house? http://ars...
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Friday, April 20, 2012

Online labor markets

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John Horton, who has an online labor blog , has compiled a great list of online labor markets . Here's what it looked like when I recent...
Saturday, October 15, 2011

Online dating, later in life

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Job markets have scrambles  for late action, and it turns out that it's never too late for online dating either, the NY Times reports: S...
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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Mike Luca on Yelp

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My colleague Mike Luca (whose work I wrote about here  when he was still a grad student) has a paper on the influence of Yelp reviews on ...
Saturday, September 3, 2011

Dating sites for French farmers

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If a dating site specializing in French farmers sounds specialized to you, consider the special problems of farmers: they are unusually immo...
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Thursday, July 7, 2011

The New Yorker on Online Dating

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Nick Paumgarten in the New Yorker: Looking for Someone "Online dating sites, whatever their more mercenary motives, draw on the premi...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Susan Athey on online experiments

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My colleague Susan Athey (in whose class I'll be guest lecturing today) speaks to NPR : "Susan Athey: Did you know that every ti...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

The Craigslist market for erotic/adult services

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Scott Cunningham at Baylor, who is a serious student of illicit labor markets (e.g. the market for sex), writes "Not sure if you saw...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Ethnic dating sites

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Friday, August 20, 2010

Online real estate markets: Yahoo and Zillow

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Yahoo Pairs with Zillow on Real Estate Listings "The deal also helps Yahoo and Zillow challenge Move Inc. (MOVE), owner of Realtor.co...
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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Dan Ariely on online dating

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A transcript and a video interview here .
Sunday, July 18, 2010

marketdesigner.blogspot.xxx

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Sex domain .xxx approved by regulators . "ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers, which is responsible for over...