Archive for April, 2009
The “Free” discussion is like giving bread to twittering birds!
The Economist started a really interesting discussion.. . again… when they said that we are heading against the end of free lunch – again. The free services around you will be changed to other business models (paid or freemium) due to the financial crisis according to the economist.
Some services have changed their business models from completely free to “cheap”. Last.fm is one example. They changed to a freemium-model recently. I hope that they will survive. It’s a huge difference between free and “cheap”. Last.fm is competing between a big number of music services with free content (iMeem, iLike, Spotify…) and of course they are loosing visitors by charging them… Read the rest of this entry »