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  • verb To transform into a commodity

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Examples

  • Authority, knowledge and expertise remain as somethign thats very difficult to commoditise, in a world where almost everything can be replicated, copied or stolen.

    Where’s the money? « Squash 2006

  • Authority, knowledge and expertise remain as somethign thats very difficult to commoditise, in a world where almost everything can be replicated, copied or stolen.

    2006 July « Squash 2006

  • You still in design input, and it's harder to see how you can commoditise that.

    e-Learning's two tiers Clive Shepherd 2007

  • While the first thing many of our users will see will be our news aggregation pages, our strategy is to try to commoditise that as a lead-in to the more important part of our business, which is the people profile pages.

    Archive 2006-01-01 2006

  • While the first thing many of our users will see will be our news aggregation pages, our strategy is to try to commoditise that as a lead-in to the more important part of our business, which is the people profile pages.

    2.0 News or not 2.0 News 2006

  • I think that its feels that the best way for us to, in fact, get to an ideal state of social ordering is to commoditise things in a general sense and then to let the market do the sorting, there is not need to an injection of ethics or values per se as the market will invisibly do this.

    Stolen from the fairies 2005

  • Because biodiversity by definition is diverse, it is difficult if not impossible to commoditise biodiversity.

    Forbes.com: News Francis Vorhies 2011

  • "One way a lot of customers look at it is that an author has put a lot of time and effort into a book, and so why would you want to commoditise it to that extent?"

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk Katie Allen 2010

  • "I think there's a risk in companies owning their own data centres because they will commoditise," said Green.

    CRN Australia - News - 2010

  • However, in an open innovation model the race to commoditise is high, Keeping margins low to avoid competition and drive to mass market appeal and therefore scale quickly.

    Site Home 2010

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