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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aleks Krotoski

Tech Weekly: Chris Anderson on 'Freemium'

In this week's Tech Weekly Charles Arthur meets Chris Anderson. His day job is the editor of the US version of Wired, but is famous for his internet theory in his book The Long Tail. His latest book Free discusses the notion of content being freely available online, and how that business model works for the content creators.

In the studio Aleks Krotoski is at the controls for the last time before a couple of months off for study duties, but she welcomes Robert Andrews from PaidContent UK into the studio. She also plays host to John Rogers - course leader of Product Design at Dundee University. His students are about to display their work at an exhibition in Islington, so he explains some of their projects including a GPS machine that gets you lost and a coffee machine that makes you the perfect cup of coffee. The team also discuss the point of product design, and how useul these products will eventually be.

All this and some highlights from PaidContent's blog and our gamesblog.

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