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Erin Hamson

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business - 4 views

www.wired.com/...ff_free

shared by Erin Hamson on 25 Sep 10 - Cached
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  • zero-cost distribution has turned sharing into an industry
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 27 Sep 10
       
      This article is long but well worth skimming. I used a quote from it in one of my latest blogposts, "Free Entertainment?" at bricolorful.wordpress.com
  • Invent something people use and throw away.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Eliminates scarcity
  • By giving away the razors, which were useless by themselves, he was creating demand for disposable blades.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Supply and demand
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  • The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Still need a way to make money
  • The first is the extension of King Gillette's cross-subsidy to more and more industries.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      That is, giving somethings to make you buy others
  • The second trend is simply that anything that touches digital networks quickly feels the effect of falling costs.
  • And that meant software of broader appeal, which brought in more users, who in turn found even more uses for computers.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Cheaper goods brings in more people allowing the standard of living to rise for all.
  • FREE CHANGES EVERYTHING
    • Andrew DeWitt
      Andrew DeWitt on 28 Sep 10
       
      Wow, this is awesome.  Imagine the world of free electricity.  It makes me wonder what our age of free digital will bring.
    • Kristi Koerner
      Kristi Koerner on 28 Sep 10
       
      I actually agree that some things, maybe even more things, should be free. But not as a marketing ploy. And this system seems to go against our capitalist ideals of competition.
  • The most common of the economies built around free is the three-party system. Here a third party pays to participate in a market created by a free exchange between the first two parties.
    • Erin Hamson
      Erin Hamson on 28 Sep 10
       
      Where the money comes in.
  • There are dozens of ways that media companies make money around free content, from selling information about consumers to brand licensing, "value-added" subscriptions, and direct ecommerce
  • subscription model of media and is one of the most common Web business models.
  • Isn't it just the free sample model found everywhere from perfume counters to street corners?
  • the manufacturer gives away only a tiny quantity
  • A typical online site follows the 1 Percent Rule — 1 percent of users support all the rest.
  • Yahoo's pay-per-pageview banners, Google's pay-per-click text ads, Amazon's pay-per-transaction "affiliate ads," and site sponsorships were just the start.
  • Gideon Burton on 25 Sep 10
     
    A seminal post that became the basis of Anderson's 2009 book, FREE (Hyperion) 
Brandon McCloskey

You Will Not Believe This Is Just a Powerpoint - 5 views

gizmodo.com/...ieve-this-is-just-a-powerpoint

digiciv web2.0 Powerpoint

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 16 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • The most awesome 450 page presentation ever." That's how the authors call this slide show—and I agree. It is awesome. But knowing that it was made using only Google Docs and no extra software whatsoever, makes it truly unbelievable.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 16 Dec 10
     
    Just goes to show that a lot can be done with free software
Jake Corkin

Economic ideas regarding internet and other "free" things - 4 views

changethis.com/...53.01.BeyondFree.pdf

economics internet free free software

shared by Jake Corkin on 27 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Jake Corkin on 27 Sep 10
     
    Recommended to me by dr. burton. "turns many conventional economic ideas upside down". this should be good.
Bri Zabriskie

Plover: Freeing Stenography | Geek Feminism Blog - 0 views

geekfeminism.org/...plover-freeing-stenography

open source software stenography

shared by Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • overlap between the stenographic and computer geek worlds is bafflingly small, considering how vital efficient text entry is to virtually every tech field
  • on-commercial applications for stenographic technology.
  • into any X window using a $45 off-the-shelf keyboard.
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  • Steno is the only text input system that’s functionally equivalent to conversational human speech.
  • wearable computing is unlikely to really take off until we get the head-mounted display issue worked out, and I don’t currently have any idea of how to make that happen on a practical level.
  • could be attached to thighs, belly, biceps, or wherever,
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      initial reaction? weird, weird weird weird!
  • phonetic system in your muscle memory.
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      which is why TypeWell which expands words when you type all the consonants is so much easier to remember. Plus you can program your own abbreviations. It' makes mroe sense for the general public. And how are Deaf/ HoH people supposed to learn the phonetic system of what to them is a foreign language? That seems a bit short sighted to me. 
  • hackathon
    • Bri Zabriskie
      Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
       
      a what?
  • Bri Zabriskie on 13 Oct 10
     
    Interview with someone who's created an open source stenograpic keyboard emulator for transcription services. I work in transcription so I think this is pretty stinking awesome.
Andrew DeWitt

Photo editor online - Pixlr.com edit image - 0 views

pixlr.com

tools photos editor photoshop image software freeware web2.0

shared by Andrew DeWitt on 09 Nov 10 - Cached
  • Andrew DeWitt on 09 Nov 10
     
    Amazing Online Image editor: Very similar to Photoshop. (Free)  Forget about image chef!
Brandon McCloskey

How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords - 1 views

lifehacker.com/...ow-id-hack-your-weak-passwords

security digiciv

shared by Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10 - Cached
  • If you invited me to try and crack your password, you know the one that you use over and over for like every web page you visit, how many guesses would it take before I got it?
  • One of the simplest ways to gain access to your information is through the use of a Brute Force Attack. This is accomplished when a hacker uses a specially written piece of software to attempt to log into a site using your credentials.
  • And how fast could this be done? Well, that depends on three main things, the length and complexity of your password, the speed of the hacker's computer, and the speed of the hacker's Internet connection.
  • Brandon McCloskey on 10 Dec 10
     
    Now, I could go on for hours and hours more about all sorts of ways to compromise your security and generally make your life miserable - but 95% of those methods begin with compromising your weak password. So, why not just protect yourself from the start and sleep better at night?
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