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The Limits to FreeConomics

Alan Patrick (Broadsight Ltd, also writes Broadstuff blog (www.broadstuff.com))
11:10 Wednesday, 22-10-2008
Location: C1

The talk is aimed at anyone with an interest in the issues around strategy and business models in the Web 2.0 environment.

As can be seen from the following posts from our blog, Broadstuff, we take a contrarian, but highly analytical, view to many of the current views around Web 2.0 business models, so this talk is bound to generate discussion.

1. http://broadstuff.com/archives/826-Freetards-and-the-FreeTardis.html

2. http://broadstuff.com/archives/986-Freeconomics-Part-I-or-who-is-paying-for-your-Free-lunch.html

3. http://broadstuff.com/archives/986-Freeconomics-Part-II-or-data-is-free-but-everywhere-in-chains.html

Presentation

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Alan Patrick

Broadsight Ltd, also writes Broadstuff blog (www.broadstuff.com)

Alan Patrick co founded Broadsight after a career both consulting to, and working at, senior level for leading global multimedia companies such as the BBC, British Telecom (OpenWorld and Ignite), AOL Time Warner, ntl and UPC. He has worked in the US, Europe, South Africa and the Far East.

Prior to setting up Broadsight, Alan was Managing Director and COO at Jacobs Rimell, who specialise in multi-media OSS systems. Before that he held positions as VP Corporate Development for Globix Corporation in New York, Head of Internet Business Development at British Telecom, and consulted widely on multimedia to a number of major TV and cable companies in his consulting career at McKinsey and PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He was involved in the design of broadband networks in the early days of their inception and has written several articles on the impact of lean operations on digital supply chains.

Alan is based in London, UK.