{"id":32516,"date":"2014-06-22T20:47:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T20:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-taskrabbit-is-blowing-up-its\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:50:44","slug":"emergentfutures-taskrabbit-is-blowing-up-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-taskrabbit-is-blowing-up-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32516 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/emergentfutures-taskrabbit-is-blowing-up-its\/attachment\/32517\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n7hoz5VoXw1qz5ttno1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/emergentfutures.tumblr.com\/post\/89563203892\/taskrabbit-is-blowing-up-its-business-model-and\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">emergentfutures<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>TaskRabbit is blowing up its business model and becoming the Uber for\u00a0everything<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&ldquo;TaskRabbit realized that radical change was needed:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.taskrabbit.com\/2014\/06\/17\/unveiling-the-new-taskrabbit\/\"><span>it decided to blow up the auction house<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in favor of a service that looks less like eBay and more like Uber. When the new system goes live next month, users will find a landing page that steers them to the platform\u2019s four most popular types of service: handyman, house cleaning, moving, and personal assistants. (You can still request other services, though it takes a few more clicks.) After you submit some details about the job, TaskRabbit will present three contractors, along with their hourly rates, who represent a range of prices and experience levels. After you select one, you can schedule a time for the job and communicate with the tasker in real time using a custom messaging platform built by the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The goal of the new system, which at first will be available only through TaskRabbit\u2019s website, is to make sure customers can book and schedule a tasker by the time they leave the site.\u00a0\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Full Story:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/6\/17\/5816254\/taskrabbit-blows-up-its-auction-house-to-offer-services-on-demand\">\u00a0The Verge<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>emergentfutures: TaskRabbit is blowing up its business model and becoming the Uber for\u00a0everything \u00a0 &ldquo;TaskRabbit realized that radical change was needed:\u00a0it decided to blow up the auction house\u00a0in favor of a service that looks less like eBay and more like Uber. When the new system goes live next month, users will find a landing page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-32516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8ss","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32518,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32516\/revisions\/32518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}