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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 27, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Nil, thanks for pointing out the host protection insurance. I had wondered about that and posted elsewhere about how Airbnb can assume the risk. Interesting choice to sell this insurance, rather than just make a guarantee that throws the full weight of Airbnb’s brand and credibility behind it. This makes me trust Airbnb less.
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Case Question: Airbnb — "EJ" Incident, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
If I were a crisis consultant, I would suggest that Airbnb assume the risk to preserve users’ trust in its service. The company in 2011 was valued at $1 billion, and it raised $112 milion in venture capital funding that year. This is enough to insure hosts’ losses in the rare instance of an “EJ event” in which a renter destroys the host’s…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, Weekly Question #7: Complete by March 27, 2017, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Eric,
Glad you mentioned care.com – I recently hired a nanny through that service and as you might imagine, the anxiety of leaving your house with an unattended stranger is second only to letting a stranger into your home to care for your kids. My wife personally knows someone who hired a nanny through the website, a person who had passed the…[Read more] -
Dan del Portal commented on the post, These are a few of my favorite things…, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Neither is as good as UpToDate but that requires the institutional subscription. Not impossible to set up, but not the easiest either.
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, These are a few of my favorite things…, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
My favorite apps….
For fun: Star Walk is just an unbelievable interface, making stargazing and learning constellations fun for even the non-astronomist living in the smoggy city. It tracks your position so you can point your phone or iPad into the sky and it will populate with what stars are above, and lets you navigate through constellations…[Read more]
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Dan del Portal commented on the post, These are a few of my favorite things…, on the site 9 years, 7 months ago
Mariya,
I read your post and this thread about Pinterest with interest, particularly with regard to the gender disparity. There was a piece in Time describing the breakdown by gender for various social media platforms, with Pinterest being the example of a female-dominated platform.…[Read more] -
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