{"id":1655,"date":"2014-10-08T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2014-10-08T07:04:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T13:04:09","slug":"the-power-of-the-internet-to-create-low-friction-marketplaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1655","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Internet to Create Low Friction Marketplaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"apples by Royalty-free image collection\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/139138903_3d9600174d_apples.jpg\" alt=\"apples photo\" width=\"333\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><small>Photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/78458997@N00\/139138903\" target=\"_blank\">Royalty-free image collection<\/a> <a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ripenear.me\/\">RipeNearMe<\/a> is an online marketplace for locally grown food.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever had a peach, apple or lemon tree go bananas with a bumper crop and not know what to do with it? Or maybe you\u2019ve seen your neighbours\u2019 trees overloaded, left to the birds, falling to the floor and going to waste? We have too, and that\u2019s why we started RipeNearMe: a web app that connects people through the food we each grow ourselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we near the end of harvest season here in Colorado, it is great to see this kind of marketplace for free or low cost food.\u00a0 Maybe the bags of zucchini at the office are on their way out?<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it would be impossible to have this kind of market if the internet (and specifically the HTTP protocol) wasn&#8217;t powering it.\u00a0 The transaction costs are simply too high and the value of the goods too low.<\/p>\n<p>Any other examples of low friction marketplaces that the internet enables?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; RipeNearMe is an online marketplace for locally grown food. Ever had a peach, apple or lemon tree go bananas with a bumper crop and not know what to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-http","category-technology-and-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1661,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}