August 2009
5 posts
Find free stuff on Twitter
From Mashable: “Freezly is a lot like Tweetmeme in that it finds link and tweets and shows you their popularity based on retweets. Freezly though only picks up free giveaways and items with its algorithm. You can see the hottest free deals being shared on Twitter, the most recent deals Freezly has found, and an archive of past giveaways.”
Free drives paid in iPhone apps
From Cellular News. “Android and iPhone users download approximately 10 new apps per month, reports a survey by mobile advertisign agency, AdMob…..Of users who have bought paid applications, the top reason cited for their purchase decision was that they liked the free version of the app, demonstrating that free-to-paid conversions are a key factor in the paid app market.” (via...
Is Free killing the porn industry?
From the LA Times: “Industry insiders estimate that since 2007, revenue for most adult production and distribution companies has declined 30% to 50% and the number of new films made has fallen sharply. “It’s the free stuff that’s killing us, and that’s not going away,” said Dion Jurasso, owner of porn production company Combat Zone, which has seen its business...
"The latest craze: free ebooks"
From the AP: “In recent days, the top three Kindle sellers have been free books: Patterson’s, Joseph Finder’s “Paranoia” and Keyes’ “The Briar King.”“There’s always going to be someone who wants free things. What we’re trying to do is link free with paid,” Maja Thomas, senior vice president of digital media at...
Criminalizing Free (French edition)
A few weeks ago, I speculated in a CNN editorial that antitrust authorities could make it illegal for dominant companies (read: Google) on the web to use Free, because it’s effectively offering a product below cost and subsidized by monopoly rent from another product. If that felt a bit far-fetched, consider this: Google is being sued in France for making Google Maps free. A French company...
