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What Commercial Properties Can Learn From Airbnb And The Sharing Economy?

Travellers have more choice than ever before thanks to the rise of the ‘sharing economy’. What’s more, this new breed of peer-to-peer network has reshaped the behaviour of travellers forever. First it ... read more

How Facebook Made a Universal Open Source Language for the Web

The diversity of languages creates a need for a lingua franca that applications can use to talk to one ... let's say you're a mobile developer at Airbnb and you want to add a feature to the iOS app th... read more

The Peril and Promise of a Sharing Economy

Airbnb, for example, seems free to distort property prices ... Democratising the sharing economy is no mean feat. Research I have conducted with colleagues at the Open University and the University of ... read more

Chip Conley’s Airbnb experience: 10 key lessons

The sharing economy was new to me. I was app-less and had never taken an Uber or stayed in an Airbnb. Part of my role was external statesman to a variety of constituencies we were disrupting: hotels, ... read more

The UK could be the world capital of the sharing economy if we take these steps

So what is the sharing economy and what is it worth? Simply, the term refers to online services that help people share assets, time and skills, with industry frontrunners including property rental pla... read more

Using Uber to understand the Airbnb challenge

More importantly, what can we, as hoteliers, learn about how traditional car services have fought back against and adapted (or not) to this ferocious new entrant? Can hotel properties ... These sharin... read more

Airbnb Is Set to Launch a New Tier of Select Properties

Properties must ... in a distributed, sharing economy-based model. Hotels have managed to perfect that process over hundreds of years, without having to contend with millions of individual owners or h... read more

Silicon Valley Is Ruining "Sharing" for Everybody

If you’ve used Airbnb or Uber or any other “sharing economy” service lately, you may be surprised to learn that you were ... it’s easy to crack down on the commercial use of improperly zoned and insur... read more

Catherine Rampell / 'Sharing economy' might be rewarding, but it's not sharing

"Sharing" is now at risk of linguistic appropriation and buzzword-ification, too - in this case by the entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley. Last week I attended a conference in San Francisco called "SHARE ... read more

'Not an attack on Airbnb:' Cambridge councilors look to protect homeowners while mulling regs

My suspicion is if we can learn how ... of the service, sharing personal success stories of meeting people from around the world through Airbnb, and many supported looking at regulating those using th... read more

The real sharing economy doesn’t require apps, just kindness

Granted, it’s easier to share information and other things freely in a place where everyone knows everyone. The platforms of the sharing economy — whether it’s bullish!t sharing like airbnb or real .. ... read more

Most Hotel CEOs Dismiss Airbnb’s Impact But Demand Level Playing Field

Skift spoke to a half-dozen hospitality CEOs, as well as other executives, to learn their thoughts about Airbnb, as well as the ongoing ... what could be described as, commercial owners of properties, ... read more