Tag: free

  • Succeeding With Freemium (Case Studies)

    A look at how to succeed with freemium, through a number of case studies: Experiment with different freemium models: When Pandora offered 10 hours of free radio before requiring users to pay an annual subscription, the vast majority of their users left once their allocation of free time expired. The company then experimented with a…

  • Cory Doctorow’s Experiment: Does Free Work?

    For his next collection of short stories to be published, titledĀ With aĀ Little Help, author and blogger-extraordinaire Cory Doctorow will be running an experiment so that he can see whether his strategy of offering his work for free is working. With prices to range from $0.00 to $10,000 for various packages, Doctorow is to track his…

  • Free: Interview with Chris Anderson

    Whether you’ve read it or not, you’re undoubtedly aware that Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired and author of The Long Tail, has written a new book: Free. I haven’t read the book but can likely guess the premiseā€”and given thatĀ the unabridged audiobook can be downloaded online I’ll no doubt be giving it a…

  • Typography and Design (Two Free Ebooks)

    Getting Real is the undisputed bible of agile software developmentā€”a manifesto that can change your view in a single reading. However when it comes to typography and design, the closest I have ever come to such a document was Mark Boulton’s Better Typography presentation. Now there’s a contender: The Vignelli Canon (pdf) I can’t do…