Freemium is better than Free « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on n A few interesting posts drew my attention this morning. First there was Dave Winer who predicts that on-line advertisement will be dead. Not because it will completely disappear, or that it’s growth will slow down considerable. But because it will be replaced by something more valuable, commercial information. Interesting thought. I’ve always felt that on-line advertisement only makes sense when the advertisement itself has value to its user. Erik Schonfeld at Techcrucnh shows statistics that advertisement growth is grinding to a halt. Chris Anderson explains about the metrics behind a business model I like a whole lot better, Freemium. Chris provides some market statistcs on this: But that was just a hypothetical percentage split, to make a point. If you can get 5% of your user converted to paying customers then your business case can become profitable. What I like best bout Freemium is that it combines the best of both worlds. Like this: Like Loading...
De nouvelles idées • New business ideas ... • Sam Hickmann Une vidéo de 3 minutes pour entrer dans l'univers des Creative Commons Pour faire référence à un récent (et édifiant) billet, si j’avais été à la place du conférencier de Calysto, j’aurais peut-être commencé pour montrer aux élèves la ressource ci-dessous que nous venons de sous-titrer. Il s’agit d’une vidéo de présentation des Creative Commons. Et nous ne sommes plus alors dans un « Internet de tous les dangers » mais dans un « Internet de tous les possibles ». On n’apprendra rien ici aux lecteurs familiers du Framablog mais n’hésitez pas à relayer l’information à tous ceux qui ne connaissent pas ou peu les Creative Commons. Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% —> La vidéo au format webm—> Le fichier de sous-titres La page d’origine de la vidéo comprenant toutes les sources des médias utilisés.
The Asymptotic Twitter Curve « What our readers want you to read! | Main | Rhythm method 2 » The Asymptotic Twitter Curve We've all been at the brain bandwidth breaking point for the last five years. Email is out of control. For those of you who don't know about Twitter, it has one purpose in life--to be (in its own words)--A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Twitter, it seems, is the solution to the one problem we all have: it's just too damn hard to keep updating our blog every few minutes to tell the world what we're doing at that very moment. (names removed to protect the utterly bored): "Missed the bus again." "Attempting to figure out why the cat is hiding." "I'm signing off." "On bus going in to the office." "Scanning pictures of 12-year old girls in mini skirts..." "Going to bed now." "Thinking about eating." "About to start a conference call." "I'm watching my dog chase the reflection from his tags and wish I had a laser pointer!" "Washing hair. Or is it?
Mary Meeker's Awesome Web 2.0 Presentation About The State Of The Web Morgan Stanley analyst Mary Meeker is better than just about anyone at summing up what's going on with the web right now, and what's going to happen. She just delivered her annual presentation at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. You can download it here as a PDF.
Instapaper Releases A Full API — With A Brilliant, Unique Twi$t I love Instapaper. Blah blah blah — you all know that by now. But today developer Marco Arment has released something significant that could alter the way the service is used: a full API. In his blog post on the matter, Arment dives into his tough decision making process when it comes to the API. The obvious choice would have been to either limit the API or charge for it. Instead, Arment came up with a smart third way of doing things. Arment also uses his post to introduce the first app using the full Instapaper API: Stacks for Instapaper. You can find Instapaper’s API documentation here.
Sites d’emploi : Monster et Cadremploi J’adore les editos de cadremploi. A une époque pas si lointain, je recherchais un travail. J’avais donc mis mon C.V. sur tous les sites d’emploi de la terre et m’étais abonné aux newsletters associées. J’entends ma RRH me demander d’une voix étouffée par l’angoisse : Mais pourquoi reçois tu toujours la newsletter de cadremploi ? Rassure toi RRH, je ne suis pas en recherche. Là, j’entends déjà les mauvaises langue me dire : Oui alors toi tu aimes les editos de cadremploi, tu t’es vendu au grand capital, t’as pris ta carte au medef et tu voteras Panafieu aux prochaines municipales. Et bien non justement. Cadremploi vs Monster Le 27 mars 2007, monster.fr faisait la une de sa newsletter avec le témoignage de Mireille O. [1] Actuellement en poste en tant que cadre commercial, je reste ouverte à toute proposition intéressante. Le 26 mars 2007 [2], Cadremploi faisait son edito sur le salon de la distribution, en des termes qu’on a pas l’habitude de lire sur un site d’offre d’emploi:
Former Myspacers Build Link Curator ‘Tagging Robot’ Former VP of Product at Myspace Todd Leeloy and Myspace Product Manager Joe Munoz have launched a semantic tagging network and link curation service today called Tagging Robot. Tagging Robot currently crawls your Facebook newsfeed and separates your links based on topics, as well as giving you relevant topics data for each link. Tagging Robot uses NLP and Machine Learning to build users a topic-centered profile, and uses your Facebook Interests and Social Graph to populate the page. What you immediately see on your profile is a list of recommended links (based on followed topics), a list of all links shared recently by your network and your favorites (which you track by clicking the <3 symbol next to each link). In addition to pulling from your Facebook Interests, you can follow topics on Tagging Robot by clicking on the “plus” or “minus” sign next to the link topic. You can sign up for the beta here.
F.lux: software to make your life better What Makes A Startup Successful? Blackbox Report Aims To Map The Startup Genome Generally speaking, the odds are stacked heavily against the average startup. The rate of failure among entrepreneurs and startups is startlingly high — it comes with the territory. Otherwise, entrepreneurs wouldn’t be pirates. But, what if there were a way to reduce that failure rate by cracking the formula of startup success? The entrepreneurs who founded the Startup Genome report (Bjoern Herrmann and Max Marmer), have also created a business accelerator called Blackbox, which will be leveraging the data they have collected (and will collect) from their ambitious R&D enterprise. The entrepreneurs recruited both UC Berkeley and Stanford faculty members, like Steve Blank, the Sandbox Network team, the Startup Bootcamp team, and the Pollenizer team, to help coauthor and contribute to the study. Here are 14 of the most interesting trends identified by the Startup Genome Report, some of which are intuitive and some of which may come as a surprise.
Full API now available Full API now available The full Instapaper API is now available for developers. See the Full API documentation to get started. I’ve made an unusual decision for it that I’d like to explain. Instapaper has nontrivial operating costs. Services with venture-capital backing can keep their APIs free in order to get more users, delaying theoretical profitability to an unspecified future date. Initially, I came up with two options: I could limit the API so it couldn’t be used to make a full-featured Instapaper app. Those options aren’t very good. Full API access, but only for paid-subscriber accounts. All previous API functionality will remain free and will work for any account. Instapaper’s own paid and ad-supported free iPhone and iPad apps in the App Store will continue to work for all customers. The first app The first complete Full API app is Stacks for Instapaper, a Windows Phone 7 client. OAuth 2.0 This version of the Full API requires OAuth 1.0 with xAuth. Thank you
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