Tuesday, February 16, 2010

My Term Project

My topic is titled, "Free Content: What is the Cost?"

I plan to explore the phenomenon of companies offering free content on the internet, and how they try to make money off of it. Also, I will explore the cost to the user, for example, in terms of less privacy (Google tracking), and more ads and clutter. I will try to touch on as many industries as possible, and hypothesize where I think this trend will lead.

2 comments:

  1. If you have time, you could talk about those free to play online games that are supported by "premium" accounts and advertisement. So the paying players get a bigger advantage over the free playing players. Which I guess isn't really a big deal, but some might consider it a ploy to get more free players to convert to paying customers.

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  2. looking forward to your presentation.

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