Corporate-responsibility. 1,000 True Fans. Douglas Rushkoff Discusses The Power Of Creating Value. Access is the New Ownership: Poptech 2010. Image: The Mesh, by Lisa Gansky One of my favorite ideas to crop up at Poptech -- a conference that's full of them -- is Lisa Gansky's concept of the Mesh: Or, how business is moving away from models of ownership and towards that of access.
The rise of product service systems (things like Netflix, Etsy, your public library, etc) has been a phenomenon we've covered for years at Treehugger: it promotes efficiency and lowers consumption through plain ol' sharing. Gansky's illuminating talk touched on all of this, and she made a compelling case that ownership is on the way out -- and access and sharing form the foundation of tomorrow's business model.Over the course of her talk, she unloaded a laundry list of compelling points to support her argument, which she delves into more deeply in her book, The Mesh: Why the Future of Business Is Sharing Consider: Which would be great news in the long run -- ownership is often a wasteful and inefficient thing.
Warner Bros to axe licenses for free streaming services. After a rough quarter which suggested that the variable-track pricing record labels fought so hard for was hurting digital sales, Warner Music Group has announced that it will no longer be licensing its music to services that offer free streaming.
Warner hasn't specifically spelled out if that will apply to current deals with services like Last.fm, Spotify, and Pandora, or just to future deals, but it could put a damper on them if artists like REM, Death Cab for Cutie, and T-Pain were no longer available on those services. "Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not be licensed," Warner CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. told BBC News.
France and the internet: Helicopters at the ready. Superfluid - the liquid economy.