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Crowdsourcing and third party monetisation (aka the trend to ‘free’) are a couple of my favourite themes and Foldit combines them both to help solve biology problems that have applications in cancer, HIV and Alzheimers. Brilliant. Foldit have released a puzzle game in which the solutions that the players come up with are real [...] Regular readers will know that I believe the price of content, including software, is trending towards the marginal cost of delivery, which is zero (note that doesn’t mean it will necessarily reach zero). Innovative companies are responding with innovative pricing models, of which ‘freemium’ is perhaps the most common. This is now a pretty [...] Frank Lee, who is a new partner at Lightbank, the VC behind Groupon gave an interview to Business Insider last week. His comment on consumer internet companies and business models summed up my own thinking neatly: the point that I’m cognizant of is that at the end of the day, these things [consumer internet [...] Earlier this year I bought a femtocell from Vodafone, a product/service they have branded Sure Signal. As you may know these devices plug into your broadband router at home and act like a mini-base station improving the mobile reception around your house. Before we installed Vodafone’s Sure Signal reception in our kitchen was poor, [...] The notion that there is more value created in the process of delivering purchases than in the process of creating the content which makes people want to buy in the first place has been buzzing round my mind since I read Chris Dixon’s post Why content sites are getting ripped off. He makes a [...] Betanews reported yesterday on the Microsoft announcement that a cut down ad-supported version of Office 2010 will be distributed for free on new Windows 7 PCs. Users will be able to pay for access to the full version with no ads (the full version will be pre-installed and the user will purchase a [...] The iPhone is an increasing competitive threat to portable gaming devices including the Nintendo DS and the PSP, and so when Sony launched the PSPGo yesterday the FT was keen to compare it with the iPhone. There are some details of the comparison below, but my main point here is to reflect on [...] Mike Masnick at Techdirt has a post up lambasting Dean Singleton, MediaNews CEO and Chairman of Associated Press for the saying the following whilst defending his decision to make one of his papers start charging for online news: “When you give it away for free it has no value. When you begin charging for [...] A Harris research poll commissioned by paidContent:UK found that 5% of respondents think they would pay for news online, with the vast majority saying that instead they would simply go to an alternative free site. If the 5% panned out in practice (and surveys are notoriously bad predictors of buying behaviour, so there [...] Image via Wikipedia I just got out of a meeting with Paypal where we were talking about their new platform (which will make it cheaper and easier for startups to build payments systems and take money. High on the list of new features is split payments which allows developers [...] |
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