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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 [...] Back in 2008 Chris Andersen published his seminal book Free: The Future of a Radical Price: The Economics of Abundance and Why Zero Pricing is Changing the Face of Business. The title is a mouthful, but the book is a monster and as I wrote when Chris published the preview of ‘Free’ I think [...] iPhone game download prices have been steadily decreasing over the last year and since Apple allowed developers to charge for in-game transactions on free to download apps the trend towards free has accelerated. Free as a business model demands innovation from companies that will keep making money and Ngmoco has come up with a [...] 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 [...] I originally wrote the post below as an opinion piece that was published on paidcontent yesterday – although I’ve changed the title here to one I think is a little better. Ahhh, the joys of being one’s own editor. News Corp (NYSE: NWS). and other traditional news businesses are hand-wringing over how [...]
Having an attractive free offering and building a large non-paying user base as first steps to building a large paying user base is a theme that has been running through a number of Fred Wilson’s posts recently – and so it was again at the weekend when he wrote Monetize The [...] The folks at Chinwag were kind enough to ask me to chair a panel on the topic of freeconomics last night. I’ve written extensively about ‘free’ as a business model extensively before, but to recap the argument for free is that more and more goods are being delivered digitally, the marginal cost of delivering [...] There are a couple of interesting posts on this topic this morning. First paidcontent reports the following: John Ridding, CEO of the Financial Times and FT.com, says his business makes 20 percent of revenue from online Tim Brooks, MD of Guardian News and Media, paidContent:UK’s parent company, said it was 15 percent for [...] Sarah Lacy has an interesting on Business Week today: Local Advertising Isn’t Jumping Online. In it she points out that few web companies have made much progress in this market – with leaders Yelp and Craigslist only successful in a handful of cities. She also points out that local newspapers are suffering as [...] Last week I wrote about Universal making millions from music videos, largely via YouTube, and then this morning I read on Techdirt that Warner is going the other way. It’s content is now starting to disappear from YouTube after it failed to reach agreement on terms with Google. It is unclear which side walked [...] |
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