Talk:Intention economy

Neologism

Borderline neologism, though with more sourcing it might be good comparison material. I wonder if this concept has already shown up in Economic literature, under a different name... mordel 19:00, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Examples

The 'Trendwatching' list of "intention economy sites currently online" referenced in the Examples section has references to sites that could be said to be stretching the definition of what are claimed to be the principles of the intention economy. For example:

• Kleemi - redirecting to www.kleemi.com - does not appear to have any membership functionality, so has no ability to "allow[] members to create list of intentions...", nor does it provide any means to express intentions
• Infinite Buyer - redirects nowhere since no hyperlink is attached to the list term. There is however a site - www.infinitebuyer.com/ - which exists and is aligned to the expressed principles of the intention economy
• SellaBand - redirects to the Wikipedia entry on the term. The external link redirects to a venture capital website(www.primeventures.com). SellaBand is a crowdsourcing concept, not an intention economy example
• Eventful - redirects to the Wikipedia entry. It is certainly compliant to the idea of giving individuals a means to express their desires, but not directly their intentions to enter into economic transactions
• Zillow - redirects to the Wikipedia entry which cites that "Zillow has stated that it is a media company that generates revenue by selling advertising". The "Make Me Move" feature is tangential or peripheral at best
• Igglo - redirects to the Wikipedia entry which states that the Finnish company declared bankruptcy in September 2008, which to be fair was 17 months after the Trendwatching article

So of the six examples offered, only one - Infinite Buyer - is possibly compliant to the principles of the intention economy. Only being able to cite one example worldwide is not sufficient to suggest a trend. Morrigel (talk) 06:08, 23 March 2014 (UTC)