Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Freemium working: an example

Trent Reznor, Nine Inch Nails, seems to have been able to monetize his fan community even though he gives away his music for free.

Details

Am noting as this is something I want to track.

Bg on the freemium business model and NinWiki, SMM, Scott Monty's SMM blog.

Another example of freemium working and not working ...

Sunday, April 5, 2009

China demographics

China has:
- 300 million Chinese online users.
- Average age: very young – 66.7 % of them are younger than 29 years old and
- 35.2 % of them are teenagers
— Social networking and entertainment apps most popular
-- most make money via micro payments and virtual goods
-- QZone and 51.com - the biggest SNS
-- Keso is the most popular tech blogger out of China

source: techcrunch.