Monday, June 6, 2011

Will Airbnb Ever Be ?The Airbnb For X??

?If your company is ever used as the subject of the "X for Y" analogy, that's success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental. Now other companies are the Airbnb of things.?
-- far33d, Hacker News With Airbnb about to enter the billion-dollar startup club, we?ve seen an influx of ?X is Airbnb of Y? headlines. While the ?X for Y? trope is extremely common in the notoriously unimaginative realm of tech reporting, the real reason ?Airbnb for X? has become a cliche is that it?s a lot easier to write (and read) than ?collaborative consumption.?

Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/9B0zh9lzxUY/

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