Tag Archives: free business model

Friendfeed may be the early adopter RSS king, but Twitter is king of 140 characters

Posted on June 9, 2008 by vanelsas

Already in 2006 Time Magazine voted the most important person on the planet to be YOU. They were dead wrong of course. In that year it wasn’t YOU that was important, it was THEM. Them meaning all of your friends … Continue reading →

Posted in advertisement trap, free business model, Friendfeed, noise, RSS, Twitter | Tagged , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

Would you be willing to pay for a web 2.0 service that provides value?

Posted on May 5, 2008 by vanelsas

The dominant web 2.0 business model is the FREE business model. It comes in many different variants, but the most widely used are the freemium business model (I always thought Fred Wilson came up with that term, but he says … Continue reading →

Posted in advertisement, Chris Anderson, Fred Wilson, free business model, Freemium, Kevin Kelly, Uncategorized, web 2.0 | Tagged , , , , , , | 24 Comments

Anyone care for a free lunch?

Posted on November 30, 2007 by vanelsas

Chris Anderson, of the long tail, wrote a nice post about the “free” business model. He gets a lot of questions on that, as people are often confused how it works (someone has to pay the bill, and someone has … Continue reading →

Posted in Beacon, Chris Anderson, Facebook, on-line advertisement, social networks, the Long Tail | Tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment