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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of BusinessI finally got around to reading the preview of Chris Anderson‘s new book in Wired Magazine.

It’s called Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business, and it’s likely to be a game-changing concept every bit as much as his last book, The Long Tail, was.

As I think more and more about the social economy, it’s concepts like this that further my thinking and help me understand it better. New business models are emerging as people’s attention is becoming the new scarce commodity and the prices of things like digital storage and media production and distribution get closer to free.

Check it out and please post a comment with your thoughts…

Twitter is where my community is.

A few weeks back I wrote about the mass migration over the weekend of my Twitter community to Pownce. We were all impressed with Pownce’s platform and the ability to have more detailed threaded conversations.

But it didn’t last. Even Ron Shevlin who proclaimed that he had moved to Pownce and was never looking back, went back. Now it seems like no one is left on Pownce. And why is that?

I think it shows that community is more important than the platform. Twitter is where everyone is. Naturally there were some holdouts, and as a result the community was less fulsome on Pownce, and we went back.

I would guess this will happen to anyone using social media to foster community and relationships. It will happen a lot.

Can you help me with nicer graphs?

I don’t like Microsoft products. There I said it, and hopefully you’re not offended.

For an upcoming presentation I want to create some charts and graphs nicer than anything Excel can spit out. And I don’t have Keynote, which is probably the solution I should be looking at. In the meantime though, are there any good web 2.0 offerings that allow you to input data and create nice looking charts and graphs?

If you do, please comment here with the URLs or email me at william [at] azaroff [dot] com.

Many thanks in advance…