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Carbonite Business Model and Dropbox - Wikibon
The following is an evaluation of the Carbonite business model relative to that of Dropbox. It is an attempt to draw comparisons between two very different approaches to the same problem; consumer/SMB online data protection and file sharing. There is no attempt to compare relative performance, reliability, availability, restore time/quality, or security of the offerings or related service level agreements.
The real cost of free | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Last week, my fellow Guardian columnist Helienne Lindvall published a piece headlined The cost of free , in which she called it "ironic" that "advocates of free online content" (including me) "charge hefty fees to speak at events". Lindvall says she spoke to someone who approached an agency I once worked with to hire me for a lecture and was quoted $10,000-$20,000 (£6,300-£12,700) to speak at a college and $25,000 to speak at a conference. Lindvall goes on to talk about the fees commanded by other speakers, including Wired editor Chris Anderson, author of a book called "Free" ( which I reviewed here in July 2009 ), Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde and marketing expert Seth Godin.
The "Freemium" business model is based on companies offering their basic services for free while charging a premium for advanced features. With a lack of available comparison sets, Freemium startups often do not know how they’re really performing, and they sometimes aren’t sure how to measure their performance. Metrics differ, depending on the industry and offering.
Understand the "Freemium" Business Model - BusinessWeek
Chris Anderson's new book , Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available for free in text form and as an audio book ), is stirring controversy and a spicy conversation around the blogosphere. The current wave of discussion started with a critical review by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker . In his review, Gladwell defends journalism and goes negative on "Free."
Free: It Works, It Cries, It Bites
This week we saw the release of Chris Anderson's book Free and reviews from the New Yorker (Malcolm Gladwell) and the Financial Times (John Gapper) .
Freemium and Freeconomics
Mark McLaughlin: Audiences Don't Pay for Content
The media industry needs to get healthy but we won't get there if we think about the Internet as the reason that consumers have stopped paying for content. Instead, we need to take a dispassionate view of mass media content and ask ourselves why the Internet is a reason that consumers should start paying for content.