Freemium is the best business model for the web !! On 12 April 2012 12:32, John Doe <fivepings@gmail.com> wrote:
Mr Njihia,I like.
Hence the reason why service providers have to change their business models from providing dumb pipes to joining the likes of google in mining information and monetising it. The so called intelligent pipes utilising two sided business models. This article illustrates how powerful data mining is; http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-....
And airtel is stuck sending unsolicited SMS's. If they are going to do that, can they atleast make it targeted? :-).
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Mbugua Njihia <mbugua@symbiotic.co.ke>wrote:
No one wants to pay for information anymore, after all the internet is overflowing with free information that is available to me even on the move on my mobile device. This seems to be the prevailing notion for many who continue to insist that the internet is “free”; but “if you are not paying for something, you are not the consumer; you are the product being sold” and the trade off for this deceptively free access to information is your personal data.****
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