I recently gave a webinar entitled The Economics of Free. My host, Vindicia, is the leading provider of SaaS billing and marketing systems for digital content and services providers, and it was a lot of fun to field questions from their customers, who include dating...
Yesterday, my Op-Ed piece on Netflix's recent price hike was picked up by the San Francisco Chronicle. The copy is below, or you can click to link. Netflix, the popular movie rental service, announced last week that it will be unbundling its DVD business...
It seems that nearly everything is available on a pay-as-you-go or pay-for-access model. Even things that you used to have to buy outright. You can pay for membership to musical content, games, encyclopedias, and software applications. But you can also...
When we look back at this era, people will laugh at the popularly-head notion that they shouldn't have to pay for content delivered online, even valuable content that was expensive to create. Some people are laughing already. Check out this funny article by...
I will be hosting and moderating the following event. The planned location isn't big enough to accomodate the crowd, so we are moving to a bigger space, likely also at the Faculty Club. Please let me know if you plan to be there, so i can say hello!...
