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  • Chris Anderson: Charlie Rose interview discussing FREE

    I spent some time this morning watching the Charlie Rose interview with Wired's editor, Chris Anderson , discussing FREE . The interview covers the economics and ideas driving the Internet's current (and future) state: the Gift Economy ; the Attention Economy ; and the Reputation Economy . Rose leads...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-03-2008

  • Freeconomics

    In discussing business models at the Dealmaker Forum this week, Don Dodge found that the "freemium" model is popular in the start-up scene. ( Freemium = a free service, usually ad-supported, with an up-sell to paid premium subscriptions / services). He asked asked each of them what kind of conversion...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 05-16-2007

  • A "one-third probability"

    Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was quoted as seeing a “one-third probability” of recession in the United States this year, according to an interview with Bloomberg. I'd say he has a 33% probability of being right.
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 03-06-2007

  • The Lightnet Revisited

    At the end of 2005 I wrote a post messing around with some ideas on the future of the net. One of the ideas was the counter concept to the Darknet, using the term 'Lightnet'. I didn't define 'Lightnet', Lucas Gonze did that (and soon after Lucas was good enough to acknowledge me with...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 02-13-2007

  • CopyBot and Napsterization of Matter

    Last year I wrote up a post called 'Napsterization of Matter - A Thought Exercise' . The point was to consider the social and economic impact of a technology could allow real world objects to be copied and rendered by anyone without restraint. It seems that this scenario is being played out the...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-24-2006

  • Nobody knows how to make a pencil

    I watched an excellent 1994 interview with Milton Friedman earlier this week, a day or two after the news of his death . In it, the Nobel Prize winning economist retold the story of how the pencil is the quintessential example of free markets at work, Adam Smith's Invisible Hand and Friedrich Hayek's...
    Posted to Alex Barnett blog (Weblog) by alexbarnett on 11-18-2006
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