Virtual team program

The head of Microsoft"s Windows Live Platform Services group offered late Wednesday an early description of services and tools that Microsoft will release at next week"s ***

Wired editor Chris Anderson has just published some interesting ruminations on costs on the Internet. Titled Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business, the essay discusses the rapidly falling marginal cost of internet services (with bandwidth, storage, and processing power all getting so close to free on a per-customer basis to no longer matter as costs) and the effects that this is starting to have, both on our expectations and on business models. While Anderson does identify half a dozen viable business models for organizations in the free era (including freemium services, advertising, cross-subsidies, zero marginal cost, labor exchange, and the gift economy), our focus here is a bit different. As web workers, we still need to earn money one way or another, if only to pay for groceries and new laptops. ***