TaskRabbit
organization · 16 episodes · JSON
- An Institution at the Intersection of Technology and Society … Cyd Harrell @cydharrell @hondanhon @KristyT tech millionaire venmoing taskrabbits to repackage ersatz international medical goods, & getting caught from the venmo feed, may be the most Neal Stephenson thing …
- A future of working … I'm not completely certain that the divide between what's traditionally thought of as the gig economy (TaskRabbit, Uber, Lyft, all of the failed home cleaning services …
- Write the future … offering emotional support over video/audio/inside Overwatch *and* sending a zero-hours Taskrabbit-style contractor to meet the physical hug need while I meet the non-physical …
- Recreational Capitalism (2); ... Or The Easy Way … operator of an array you can click "apply Courthouse Marriot" and then some taskrabbit gets spun up somewhere and the necessary set dressing is dropshipped in from afar …
- Stock; Two Thoughts … doing it yet, nor am I quite happy with, say, getting myself a TaskRabbit or setting up an MTurk "process" to do it for me. You know, like …
- Internet of Capitalism; Internet of Things Winter; Transmogrify … The Fiverr and TaskRabbit of the invisible hand, guiding slowly and inexorably toward creative directors, chief operating officers and human resource directors, all the usual occupants of the …
- Meat Puppets; The Circuit … Oh, and what else? Yes, this week, we got the inevitable re-brand from TaskRabbit[5] which has, honestly, done wonders to debunk the stereotype that YES ALL …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … what are the new jobs going to be, what with all this disruption going on? There are the short-term new jobs - the Ubers and TaskRabbits and mainly …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … Nowhere do they feel like they're making the best of both ends of the spectrum. *Maybe* something like TaskRabbit or Airbnb will do that because either of …
- Taking Stock; And The New … The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities Then there's the fact that every now and then I'd fixate on Star Trek: The Next Generation and pick apart …
- The Next Big Thing In Drugs; As If You Needed Another NYT Opinion; Experience This; The Value Of The Thing … To what does an Airbnb apply? The website? The guest experience? I mean, this kind of feels a bit like Airbnb mixed with an entertain me-please TaskRabbit …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … After all, what's there to argue about when you get to a) help neighbors, and b) make a little extra money? Being a TaskRabbit, TaskRabbit reminds us …
- The Sustainable Web; TaskRabbit; Airbnb; Cities … As an aside, it'd totally be possible to do a sort of TaskRabbit Emancipation Day where we all pay TaskRabbits to take the day off. Or a …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … All that's missing is Uber getting into the personal loan business - just watch for that shift where startups like Uber, Lyft or TaskRabbit start offering payday loans …
- Humane Technology; They Shoot Jobs, Don't They; On Depression … It may turn out to be TaskRabbits all the way down. It turns out that this fear of a revolution in productivity eating and never reconstituting and reformulating …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … Need to pay for the bottled water and charger cables in your Uber car? Maybe you can do some TaskRabbit errands in the morning before going to work …