Uber
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- Sure, Fine, Crushed It; Smarts … But, consider! For whatever reason, I want to get food delivered The food delivery app (let’s say Postmates by Uber) asks for permission to access my smart …
- Personality; A Rule about Designing Games … The large action model, or LAM, was trained by humans interacting with apps like Spotify and Uber, essentially showing the model how they work. The LAM learned what …
- It Sounds Like You're Jealous; Scale Considered Harmful … human labour, like Amazon's mechanical turk, or other APIs for humans, like Uber and other gig economy companies Automation of translation of information, like reading of license …
- Dan Hon is Away, Still … from our bridge crew are Uber-style "independent contractors" - and maybe even the bridge crew, maybe even Captain Kirk is an Uber-style independent-contractor-not-an-employee …
- s11hiatus05/05: umbra … Algorithmic surge pricing, along with opaque driver/rider feedback mechanisms? An umbra patent, licensed by Uber. Automatic license plate recognition systems with a sort of “hello, what would …
- New clouds; Spreadsheets; Half-lives; Snow Crashing chapters 17 and 18 … Going custom was reasonable! Demaine has a non-Monzo example: “Uber initially settled on Thrift and Mesos , which subsequently got drowned by gRPC and Kubernetes respectively!” [ Tweet ] Now …
- Snow Crash Ch13, Part 2; Everything Is Political … Fine, you might have some secret, proprietary/confidential information about Rat Thing, the kind of stuff that Uber might get taken to court by Google over. But that …
- Snow Crashing … nothing like an Uber or a Lyft, here. Y.T. makes her move when her wristwatch goes off. Punches the emergency exit, the alarm goes off and gets …
- What’s the target? … good call, autocorrect) you and representing you to a sort of Uber-intent floating over Silicon Valley. But - it’s not like people have started to notice that …
- The One With The Uneven Mid-Season Two-Parter … okay fooled us once. *Uber, Lyft arrive in cities, cities caught off-guard, are “disrupted”* Cities: jesus christ okay, fooled us twice * e-Scooters arrive in citie-* Cities …
- Nobody expects the hiatus newsletter … Ha, ha, ha. [0] 10 Design Trends That Will Shape 2018 – Dan Hon – Medium [1] Uber but for... (@uber_but_for) | Twitter 4.0 Unicorn chasers All of …
- 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 …
- You can't say no … It's as if you'd get a Falling Down moment, but it's that one person who hasn't deleted Uber yet who finally gets one more …
- umbra … Algorithmic surge pricing, along with opaque driver/rider feedback mechanisms? An umbra patent, licensed by Uber. Automatic license plate recognition systems with a sort of “hello, what would …
- They Should Have Sent A Poet … What Happened When A University Administrator Tried Being An Uber Driver[2]). But I see the *gains* that sticking a networked computer in everyone's pocket (constant access …
- Patterns in the noise … Look, if Uber can on-board someone in x many minutes and have them drive people around, or if you can subscribe to a recurring credit card charge …
- Black Design … thinking -- have become increasingly in vogue amongst both Silicon Valley style companies like Uber, Google and Facebook, as well as more traditional companies like General Electric and financial …
- Recreational Capitalism (3); Miscellanea … people who own cars and rent them out to Uber drivers, people who own multiple properties and manage them via Airbnb). Or, another version of the future where …
- Hello babies; Post-Apocalyptic Duolingo; Recreational Capitalism … more and so on and so on) I feel like the story that Uber and Airbnb *want* to tell, and the story that's attractive for them is …
- Battlesuits; Simulations and Puppyslugs; Scratchpad … Who knows what Uber wants, but one of the possible futures is one where Uber just wins at logistics. And then what, anyone in the world can - well …
- Oh, I Don't Know, Just Everything; A Bit About Brand Advertising Again … Logic or Biology - via Bret Victor [4] Here’s the solution to the Uber and Airbnb problems — and no one will like it - Nick Grossman [5] Regulation, the …
- Unblocking … News | OPB - Portland let in Lyft and Uber and one of the conditions was that the city got access to data to make decisions about transport as a …
- The Humane Calendar; Government 3.0; Digital Public Space … users were invisible to Government - Fixes an issue where Government was incompatible with Uber and other ride-sharing apps in some areas - Fixes an issue where some female …
- Smarts; Odds … 2.0 Odds A collection of things that have, as they say, caught my attention: - via Mike Isaac on Twitter , Uber have taken the next inevitable step and …
- Bureaucracy Is An Algorithm; Vapourware; No New Ideas … Basic income, basic connectivity, and basic compute resource. [1] https://twitter.com/cekent/status/566252202139074560 [2] Google Cabs And Uber Bots Will Challenge Jobs 'Below The API' - Anthony …
- Translation; Drift; The Thing About Things … On with the show. [1] Uber’s Business Model Could Change Your Work 1.0 Translation We've been struggling with how to take the GDS concept of …
- Ops, Not Apps; The Internet (Of Things); Reviewing Reviewing A Year In Review … doing things that help you get to better things. [1] A Leaked Internal Uber Presentation Shows What The Company Really Values In Its Employees 2.0 The Internet …
- The Starship Enterprise; How Do You Solve A Problem Like Digital? … from our bridge crew are Uber-style "independent contractors" - and maybe even the bridge crew, maybe even Captain Kirk is an Uber-style independent-contractor-not-an-employee …
- Web Directions South; A Thousand Songs In Your Pocket; Odds … And it feels like this is why we talk - when we talk in negative ways - about services like Uber and the rhetoric of the sharing economy and things …
- The Difficult Third Album … What irks me is when companies like Uber take that software-eating-jobs position and then distort it into a "we're providing jobs" message. That's not …
- Yes, And... … public transport is difficult (and, really, public transport is done in the pre-Uber, pre-algorithmic way). Whereas Myanmar has the clean slate. China, in places, has the …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … 3.0 More Uber If it feels a bit like a mad-as-hell-and-won't-take-it-anymore moment, then maybe it's because it is …
- Not All...; Now Wear This; Uber … And I feel like Uber are lying to me. [1] A Leader for the Uber Campaign - Uber -- I'm annoyed. You should cheer me up by sending notes …
- Digital Watches; Stay In Control; Unreasonable Empathy; Odds … savvy taxicab operators in San Francisco working out that if they're playing Uber at their own game on a more level playing field - ie not having to …
- Another Way; Bottom-Up; Oh, Is That The Time … Making a buck, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, second jobs, eBaying, airbnb, Uber, working hard and getting on: that's the American way. Finding a way to …
- To Serve; Odds … I'll leave aside again, for the sake of argument, all the stuff about Uber's business practices and their ethics, and instead concentrate on the *what* that …
- Seeing; Shallow; Better Taxis … Then services like Uber and Airbnb - whether you like it or not - are certainly satisfying a *need*. They wouldn't be so successful otherwise. Sure, they might be …
- The Only Medium; Watching You; Smart Cities … At this point you'd be forgiven for some sort of sympathy for the plight of Airbnb and Uber because, at one level, they're trying to provide …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … No, Uber's valuation should be more than the $18bn and the upside is stupendously massive: but let's be clear, in the potential markets for Uber addressed …
- Solving The Problem … Those people who call for not having to speak to a driver - Uber or not - and to communicate with them only through app are essentially wishing for a …
- When You're Tired Of Cities … of-capital D by intermediary services afforded new delivery methods through technology, like Uber), and the list of things that are benefits of cities are possibly becoming shorter …
- A Real Hunger; Will The Real Blue Ant; A Category Error … It's like saying "What's perhaps most surprising is that Uber is an app, not a traditional black car service." They're both black car services: but …
- Mundane Blue Ant; Press Square To Hack … bunch of Silent Circle BlackPhones, on-demand, just-in-time ground transport through Uber and, depending on your need for point-to-point hundred-mile plus transport either …
- This Incredible Journey; What Comes First; Who Owns The Robots … And yes, while the pushback may be on exploitative business models, the issues around a company like Uber are complex. Because Uber is playing a long game, a …
- The New Jobs; Disrupting Bitcoin; Protect Us; The Full Stack Is Better?; Dumb Screens … what things are humans *best* at? As an aside, is the Uber argument even zero-sum? Is there only room for one Uber? (Lyft feels like an also …
- Recurring; Better, But Not Best … what would Uber charge for unlimited monthly transport? [1] https://www.flickr.com/help/limits/ [2] http://www.kidpost.net [3] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/14 …
- Building Together; Beautiful Shooty Things; Software For Eating; The New Toys On The Web; Take It Seriously; And Finally … This isn't job creation at the Uber level, which I would argue makes room for substitutable jobs that are pretty much low-end skills and drudge work …
- Disruption; Supply Chains; The Good Bit … First, some data points: - Uber obviously wants to replace all of its drivers with self-driving cars[1] - Google is designing self driving cars / autonomous transport units[2 …
- The Internet of Safety; Invisible Technology; Like A Dog Whistle; Odds … management, at the large end like GIS and at the narrow end, like Uber and Airbnb. Social feedback mechanisms like Twitter are providing violent check mechanisms against morality …
- The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy; Cities … 1.0 The Pre-Post-Scarcity Economy I've been thinking more about airbnb, Uber, TaskRabbit and other exemplars of The Sharing Economy to figure out what I …
- Cities; Disruptive; Still Brittle … And don't give me that crap about services like Uber or Airbnb, because at this point they feel essentially like on-demand dehumanising services *if* one of …
- Symptom Masquerading As Disruption (2); The Model Is The Modeled; Labour Not Employment; Superstar Ratings, Here We Go; Not Swarm … either Uber has to compete and provide higher "wages" and reduce its take, or the overall service that Uber provides plummets as the quality of the labour workforce …
- A Symptom Masquerading As Disruption; Swarm 0.0 Station Ident Short one today, written in the back of an Uber, as always. It's hot in San Francisco and I had an It's …
- The Book and The Library; More Responsive OS 0.0 Station Ident I'm say in the back of an Uber, heading out to Facebook's Menlo Park campus again. Turns out you can get some …
- The iPad; The Difficulty; Tools; Silly … work with Facebook today, so I found myself in the back of an Uber on the way down to Menlo Park. I mean, it's a bit ridiculous …
- Disbanded; The Responsive OS … ask anyone in the medical devices space or Airbnb or Uber, and there will be regulation out there: as disruptive as a startup like Airbnb is (and I …
- Wearables Unworn; Look At What They Want … cries for services like Uber to minimise the interaction needed to have with the flesh-printed actuator (er, human driver) that will take you to your destination. Sure …
- 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 …
- On Advertising; On Schmidt; Shorts … Need some extra cash? Drive a Lyft or Uber at the weekend. Need to pay for the bottled water and charger cables in your Uber car? Maybe you …
- Everything In Silos, Forever and Ever, Amen … Uber, much as I hate them for being Uber, will come along and work out that hey, digital actually can make your business of cars that move things …
- Rate All The Things … All because drivers are rated by passengers, and Uber uses driver rankings to "constantly improve the rider experience."[2]. Uber drivers, of course, also rate their passengers. Here …