{"id":820,"date":"2018-08-19T09:34:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T08:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silta.es\/dixIT\/reflexiones-IT\/?p=820"},"modified":"2018-08-19T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T08:34:29","slug":"the-difference-between-a-platform-and-an-aggregator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/the-difference-between-a-platform-and-an-aggregator\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between a platform and an aggregator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by @benthompsonBen via @exponentialview<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ped30.com\/2018\/06\/01\/ben-thompson-platform-aggregator\/\">The difference between a platform and an aggregator (video) | Philip Elmer\u2011DeWitt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialview.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=eee7b8043119f98544067854b&amp;id=14ce4089bd&amp;e=b68dab1d0e\">explained by <em>Stratechery<\/em>\u2019s Ben Thompson<\/a>, there is another divide between different types of platforms, with some more conducive to supply-side (labour) empowerment than others.<\/p>\n<p>In Thompson\u2019s framework, \u201caggregators\u201d are focused on providing their customers with a standardised service. In the process, they turn suppliers into interchangeable commodities, depriving them of economic leverage. Actual \u201cplatforms\u201d, on the other hand, are mere \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/exponentialview.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=eee7b8043119f98544067854b&amp;id=854f23f849&amp;e=b68dab1d0e\">tool providers<\/a>\u201d (Sangeet Paul Choudary\u2019s phrase) that suppliers (workers) can harness for empowerment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by @benthompsonBen via @exponentialview Source: The difference between a platform and an aggregator (video) | Philip Elmer\u2011DeWitt As explained by Stratechery\u2019s Ben Thompson, there is another divide between different types of platforms, with some more conducive to supply-side (labour) empowerment than others. In Thompson\u2019s framework, \u201caggregators\u201d are focused on providing their customers with a standardised  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sin-categoria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silta.es\/juantatay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}