Links for February 26th 2009 through March 6th 2009: Australians spend much more time online | Australian IT - “The Nielsen Online Internet and Technology Report surveyed more than 2000 Australians and found the average Aussie spent 89.2 hours a week consuming media last year or almost 80 per ...

Ever scratch your head and wonder why you can use your favorite application for free?  How can a business actually make money (and stay in business) when they offer their product for free?  This article looks at the freemium business model, to see when it makes sense for a company to offer it.  ...

Online storage company Hordit has announced that they are removing the free account and are switching to paid plans only. Hordit describes their service as, 'Hordit lets you unleash the information hoarder in you.   Store and share links, documents, notes and more - as much as you want - for free!...

A few posts drew my attention this weekend. first there was Chris Anderson talking about the economics of giving it away. It seems to me that Chris is changing his tone of voice in FREE. Whereas he often has focused on the zero cost distribution of FREE, he now talks about the revenue side of things...

There are always two sides to any conflict and any business process as well so the major reason for any misunderstanding is that people simply see one side of the process and fail to understand what the other thinks. But trying to understand what the other side has in mind could be just the right th...

I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to offer products that are free or basically free to users on the web. I try not to get religious about free - there’s nothing inherently right or wrong about choosing a business model that incorporates a free component so long as you understa...

If “we” had to throw away “our” jargon - blogosphere, Web 2.0, social media, and so on - and could keep one term, I would vote to save freemium. I like portmanteau words: wijard = widget + card, freemium = free + premium, etc. Dries of Drupal, Acquia, and Mollom fame posted e...

A few posts drew my attention this morning. First, Nick Carr points out that Google is changing the way the web appears, depending on whether or not you are using the Google search engine: First Click Free allows publishers that restrict access to their sites (to paying or registered customers) to g...

Steven Hodson is the cranky old fart as well as respected Web 2.0 and social media pundit behind WinExtra.com. His guest post today is a continuation of a short series of articles that examine alternatives for the very advertising-dependent world of Web 2.0 and social networks. The series began with...

Friendfeed is on TechMeme again. This time we hear from Hugh Carpenter that some early adopters are moving towards Friendfeed now. According to Hugh people are moving away from the social services they have been using towards Friendfeed. While the compete traffic graph does show an increase in traff...