Posts Tagged ‘freeconomics’
You Are Google’s Product
16Jul09
The freeconomics/freemium discussion generated this tweet from Mark Cuban (actually, he’s quoting someone called “wjousts,” whoever that is):
You are not the customer of companies like Google and Facebook. You are the product. The advertisers are the customers.
This little gem was largely overlooked, but I think it’s a HUGE distinction, one that many struggling Web 2.0 startups still [...]
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Tags: business models, facebook, freeconomics, freemium, google, mark cuban, revenue models
The release of Chris Anderson’s book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price, has sparked a lot of interesting discussion over the past week or so, drawing responses/reactions from the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Mark Cuban, and Fred Wilson, among others. For those who don’t know, Anderson coined the phrase “long tail” in a 2004 Wired [...]
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Tags: business models, chris anderson, facebook, fred wilson, freeconomics, freemium, long tail, malcolm gladwell, mark cuban, myspace, twitter, youtube
