April 12, 2004

File sharing economics

21:00 on Monday April 12, 2004 | 3 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

Felix Oberholzer of the Harvard Business School and Koleman Strumpf of UNC Chapel Hill just completed an extensive empirical analysis of p2p sharing which concludes that Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero. Now that's...



Open Source for Collaborative software

20:33 on Monday April 12, 2004 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments

A Manifesto for Collaborative Tools. A must read by Jon Erickson (or so it seems) which strongly suggests that the Open Source movement will have a central role in developping those collaborative tools, because they must be interoperable to work,...