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Chris Anderson vs Malcolm Gladwell: The Freestyle Fight
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The battle of pop sociologists just got a lot more interesting: in the latest issue of New Yorker magazine, Malcolm Gladwell does a fisking of Wired editor Chris Anderson’s new book “Free”, the book about the future of pricing and the value of IP (and by definition business models) in a digital world. Anderson’s iron law: “In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay with laws and locks, but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.” Gladwell’s main take: that free isn’t what everything is moving towards, and building a business on it is not as simple, due to other factors involved. “There are four strands of argument here: a ...
Dear Malcolm: Why So Threatened?
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It’s now clear that the bane of my next year will be questions about the future of the newspaper industry from journalists. I don’t blame them—newspapers are indeed one of the industries most affected by Free (although that’s just one manifestation of their larger problem: having lost their monopoly on consumer attention). And neither I nor anybody else has any good answers, other than the newspaper business is probably going to shrink but not go away, and that the business model will have to change. ...
Breakfast briefing: £1bn for startups, and Steve Jobs goes back to work
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... • Forget the big match-ups at Wimbledon this week, the best as pop-business writers, as Malcolm Gladwell and Chris Anderson begin trading opinions over the Long Tail author's latest opus, Free. Gladwell landed the first blow with a long review of Free in the New Yorker that ...
When SaaS Hits Critical Mass, the Game Changes [GigaOM]
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... a mix of free and paid offerings. Now that there are so many users, subscribers often wind up sending bills to one another. So the company made it possible to send those invoices within the system directly, bypassing external email. Today, Freshbooks revealed that 20 percent of its subscribers had adopted this new capability — taking Freshbooks from software tool to SaaS ecosystem.
Is this how freemium pays off? In “Free,” Chris Anderson speculates that information-based businesses ...
Anderson Sets His 'Free' Free, In Audio And Abridged Forms
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Well, he had to practice what he’s preaching. Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson, whose Long Tail follow-up Free describes the freemium business model, is releasing versions of the title for free…
—UK publisher Random House, at the launch event last week and in an upcoming promo with BrandRepublic.com, is giving away free abridged paperback versions of the book.
Anderson says that’s “in association with Adobe” - the exact relationship there isn’t detailed but it’s basically subsidisation of the sort we’ll assume is dissected in the book when it hits shelves Tuesday. Anderson does say: “This special sponsored paperback ...
The Cost of DDOS Attacks
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Over the July 4th weekend, websites in the United States and South Korea were under heavy assault. As the New York Times reported:
The Treasury Department, Secret Service, Federal Trade Commission and Transportation Department Web sites were all down at varying points over the holiday weekend and into this week, The A.P. reported, citing officials inside and outside the American government.
The Washington Post, which was also attacked over the weekend, reported that 26 government and commercial sites were targeted in attacks that the National Intelligence Service are calling “elaborately prepared and executed at the level of a group or a ...
