Freemium is Not a Business Model, it’s a Marketing Model

September 27th, 2009

I’ve spent some time this Sunday morning, watching a video on Carsonified’s Vimeo channel, in which Jason Fried from 37 Signals gives a FOWA speak on making money off your by-products. In it, he touches delicately upon the subject of “freemium” and why he thinks it is a bad business decision to give away stuff [...]

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in Literature, business | 2 Comments »

Not been blogging much – I’m writing a book!

August 25th, 2009

It has been two months since I last wrote a blog post. The reason is that I’m currently writing a book! A book about productivity and creativity. I like to think of it as my essay on GTD, productivity dogmas, false assumptions, as well as the more philosophical buddhist concepts of zen, the mind (mind [...]

Tags: , , , , ,
Posted in Information, Literature | 1 Comment »

Sony HDR-XR500/520 review

June 20th, 2009

I visited a Sony store in Barcelona back in March and I remember how surprised I was to find that Sony products suffer from such poor design nowadays. I had heard Sony Vaio laptops was praised for their design, yet to me they looked extremely cheap. Shiny plastic, in an uncool way. It just screams [...]

Tags: , , ,
Posted in Review, Technology, Video | 12 Comments »

  • Oliver Tweets
    • The Autoptimize plugin for WordPress gave an A Grade in YSlow - Woohoo! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autoptimize 4 days ago
    • I installed Flash in IE8 and got a Google Toolbar. WTF?! 4 days ago
    • Listening to lotsa 2Pac today. Dunno why... Maybe because I love ol'school... and, since he's dead, he's pretty ol'school;-) RIP gangsta 4 days ago
    • @zinkly WebFaction has proven more unstable than MT for me. Awkward control panel as well. So I'm back with MT ;-) 5 days ago
    • Yo @mediatemple - isn't it now you should hire some more support staff and help Obama get people employed? 33 hours support queue is uncool. 6 days ago
    • Deleting a Time Machine backup takes like... half an hour... an hour... there is like a million symlinks in there... 1 week ago
    • @mediatemple Well, if you can offer me a GS Lite to try, I'd definetely give you a second chance;-) 1 week ago
    • If the response / latency times @webfaction were stock charts, I'd be rich from the last couple of weeks. 1 week ago
    • @cwcrawley Are you hosted on the Grid @mediatemple? I was, then switched to @webfaction. Good start, now poor performance. Sigh. 1 week ago
    • Oh my how Webfaction hosting sucks these last days: Response times up to a minute being the rule rather than the exception... 2 weeks ago
  • Follow me on Twitter!