Wednesday, June 25, 2008

On Free

In todays Web 2.0 there is asymmetry in place:

People that contribute are not paid for their value generation, but the platform provider is.
In this case its blogspot.com - Google but not me.

You only need 1% of the visitors to contribute to create a community. That community is making money in the 6 ways mentioned in Chris Andersons Article on Free (http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/16-03/ff_free?currentPage=1), but we are not paid for doing the work and creating the value, anywhere today.
Amazon, facebook, wikipedia, you name it.

I believe this will be the next paradigm shift in the networked world although it remains to be seen if people ever realize they are exploited...

2 comments:

tillg said...

You are wrong: You get paid for your content! Just place an add beside your blog. That is also the only way Google makes money from it...

Christian Busch said...

Ok, did you get paid for your comment on the blog ?