#business-models — Public Fediverse posts

Benjamin Tincq’s 2014 fOSSa/INRIA talk: a lively dive into Open Hardware business models, P2P collaboration and the future of free objects. Perfect for makers, open-source entrepreneurs and anyone curious about sustainable models for free hardware — thoughtful and still relevant! #OpenHardware #BusinessModels #FOSS #P2P #OpenSource #FreeCulture #INRIA #English
https://studios.racer159.com/videos/watch/323881e5-a322-47d4-a3ed-c3177904ec82

Edible Garden to develop Midwest ready-to-drink manufacturing hub https://www.allforgardening.com/1639281/edible-garden-to-develop-midwest-ready-to-drink-manufacturing-hub/ #BusinessModels #garden #jobs #Leadership #NorthAmericanNews #R&D #skills

The New Open Source Playbook – Products and Customers in an Agentic Engineering World

https://osenetwork.com/2026/02/20/the-new-open-source-playbook-products-and-customers-in-an-agentic-engineering-world/

The Policy Risk Of Closing Off New Paths To Value Too Early

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/11/the-policy-risk-of-closing-off-new-paths-to-value-too-early/

#Anthropic’s release of new #AItools targeting complex #professionalworkflows has sparked concerns about the impact on traditional #software #businessmodels. The long-term impact remains uncertain, with some analysts predicting a shift towards #AIdrivenworkflows while others emphasise the resilience of mission-critical #enterprisesoftware providers. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/ai-anthropic-tools-saas-software-stocks-selloff.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Discover Open Source through the research of Amel Charleux, Associate Professor at the University of Montpellier 🔍🔍
Business models, competition and coopetition among actors, AI: another perspective on our ecosystem that allows us to step back!

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/the-fundamentals-open-source-as-seen-by-a-researcher-amel-charleux/

#research #opensource #businessmodels #odooCommunityAssociation #oca #odoo #openrail

Kelly Evans: Goodbye, Google – CNBC

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Kelly Evans: Goodbye, Google

Published Wed, Jan 7 20269:51 AM EST

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For the first time yesterday, when I went to Google (which I do less and less of anymore), it asked me if I wanted to switch over to AI mode. I figured sure, since I’ve been using its AI summaries anyhow, and it put me into what looked like a full-blown version of Gemini or ChatGPT. No ads. No blue links. 

What this tells me is that the era of Google as we knew it is officially over. And I, for one, certainly do not mourn that. As great as the product was when it was first introduced, is as bad as it became towards the end. Good luck finding any really useful links buried beneath all of their ads. Smaller businesses were justifiably furious at having to pay to compete up top against the deep-pocketed big guys for traffic they were rightly owed. 

The search engine, in other words, had become nowhere near as effective as it used to be. And while regulators drool at the opportunity to jump in and set rules and prosecute offenders and collect big fines, it’s far better for society that monopolies are disrupted because they become less useful and leave an opening for better products to break through. 

Enter ChatGPT. 

Now, the irony here is twofold. One, after a few early missteps, Google has answered ChatGPT with its own excellent chatbot, Gemini, that we are using more and more of in our house. (If you want a chuckle, ask it to give you this job/personality test.) Shares of parent company Alphabet soared 65% last year, for the best performance of all the “Magnificent 7.” 

So while it’s goodbye to Google as a search box, the company itself has pivoted nicely, and regulators can at least breathe somewhat easy that they have a formidable rival now, with ChatGPT’s 900 million active weekly users. 

Secondly, the real question is what happens to the entire internet ecosystem that once relied upon Google search traffic. I’m thinking of recipe bloggers, websites like Vice and Buzzfeed that once had hundreds of employees, and so forth. I’m not sure how much of the former internet economy realizes it’s never coming back, and they will have to dream up entirely new business models. 

I also expect the lawyers are salivating. The class action suits against chatbots that scraped the internet of content that people once made a living off of must surely be coming apace. News providers can survive and even thrive in a world where chatbots have to pay to maintain access to up-to-the-minute information for users, but someone who gave the internet their maple-glazed salmon recipe? Forget about it. 

Continue/Read Original Article Here: Kelly Evans: Goodbye, Google

The New Open Source Playbook – Platforms Part Deux

https://osenetwork.com/2025/12/30/the-new-open-source-playbook-platforms-part-deux/

You Shouldn’t Have To Hate Your News Source To Support It

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/30/you-shouldnt-have-to-hate-your-news-source-to-support-it/

The New Open Source Playbook

https://osenetwork.com/2025/12/30/the-new-open-source-playbook/

Techdirt Doesn’t Annoy You Into Paying, And That’s Worth Paying For

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/26/techdirt-doesnt-annoy-you-into-paying-and-thats-worth-paying-for/

When People Realize How Good The Latest Chinese #OpenSource Models Are (And Free), The #GenAI Bubble Could Finally Pop - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/16/when-people-realize-how-good-the-latest-chinese-open-source-models-are-and-free-the-genai-bubble-could-finally-pop/ #businessmodels #china

"Earlier this year, MIT made headlines with a report that found 95% of organizations are getting no return from AI — and this despite a groundbreaking $30 billion investment, or more, into US-based internal gen AI initiatives. So why do so many AI initiatives fail to deliver positive ROI? Because they often lack a clear connection to business value, says Neal Ramasamy, global CIO at Cognizant, an IT consulting firm. “This leads to projects that are technically impressive but don’t solve a real need or create a tangible benefit,” he says.

Technologists often follow the hype, diving headfirst into AI tests without considering business results. “Many start with models and pilots rather than business outcomes,” says Saket Srivastava, CIO of Asana, the project management application. “Teams run demos in isolation, without redesigning the underlying workflow or assigning a profit and loss owner.”

A combination of a lack of upfront product thinking, poor underlying data practices, nonexistent governance, and minimal cultural incentives to adopt AI can produce negative results. So to avoid poor outcomes, many of the techniques boil down to better change management. “Without process change, AI speeds today’s inefficiencies,” adds Srivastava.

Here, we review five tips to manage change within an organization that CIOs can put into practice today. By following this checklist, enterprises should start to turn the tide on negative AI ROI, learn from anti-patterns, and discover which sort of metrics validate successful company-wide AI ventures."

https://www.cio.com/article/4095159/a-cios-5-point-checklist-to-drive-positive-ai-roi.html

#AI #GenerativeAI #ROI #BusinessModels

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse/

#Cloudflare announced #NETDollar, a US dollar-backed #stablecoin for the #agenticweb, where #AIagents transact on behalf of users. The stablecoin aims to enable instant, secure, and globally accessible transactions, supporting #microtransactions and new #businessmodels that reward #originality. https://blockworks.co/news/cloudflare-unveils-net-dollar-stablecoin-for-ai-internet-economy?eicker.news #tech #media #news

"My gut instinct is that this is an industry-wide problem. Perplexity spent 164% of its revenue in 2024 between AWS, Anthropic and OpenAI. And one abstraction higher (as I'll get into), OpenAI spent 50% of its revenue on inference compute costs alone, and 75% of its revenue on training compute too (and ended up spending $9 billion to lose $5 billion). Yes, those numbers add up to more than 100%, that's my god damn point.

Large Language Models are too expensive, to the point that anybody funding an "AI startup" is effectively sending that money to Anthropic or OpenAI, who then immediately send that money to Amazon, Google or Microsoft, who are yet to show that they make any profit on selling it.

Please don't waste your breath saying "costs will come down." They haven't been, and they're not going to.

Despite categorically wrong boosters claiming otherwise, the cost of inference — everything that happens from when you put a prompt in to generate an output from a model — is increasing, in part thanks to the token-heavy generations necessary for "reasoning" models to generate their outputs, and with reasoning being the only way to get "better" outputs, they're here to stay (and continue burning shit tons of tokens).

This has a very, very real consequence."

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybody-is-losing-money-on-ai/

#AI #GenerativeAI #BusinessModels #LLMs #Chatbots #AIHype #AIBubble

#NISO (@NISOInfo) welcomes your feedback on its Draft Recommended Practice for Open Access Business Processes. Comments are due by October 17, 2025.
https://nationalinformationstandardsorganization.cmail19.com/t/j-e-wkkyult-tlbdhikdy-i/

#BusinessModels #OpenAccess #ScholComm

Search Engine Land: The implosion of the blogging-for-dollars revenue model. I think that’s done been imploded. “This ‘blogging-for-dollars’ model powered the growth of countless niche sites, media empires, and an entire supporting ecosystem of tools, services, and infrastructure. But the model that once drove the golden age of attention-optimized publishing – where the sole goal was to […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/14/search-engine-land-the-implosion-of-the-blogging-for-dollars-revenue-model/

Interview: Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, and the Demise of Radish

The president of Wattpad, Aron Levitz looks at the value of 'embracing a community, embracing a fandom."
The post Interview: Wattpad’s Aron Levitz, and the Demise of Radish appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/08/interview-wattpads-aron-levitz-and-the-demise-of-radish/

#AnnaTodd #Asia #Authors #BookstoFilm #BusinessModels
@indieauthors

*Well, that was edifying. #generatedvideo #slop #characteristics #artifacts #glitches #genres #businessmodels youtu.be/fOEqDygg56w?...

Radish Announces the ‘Difficult Decision’ To Close

Less than a decade in action, one of the key 'online literature' serialization platforms, Radish, is to close on December 31.
The post Radish Announces the ‘Difficult Decision’ To Close appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/07/radish-announces-the-difficult-decision-to-close/

#Asia #Authors #BookstoFilm #BusinessModels #China
@indieauthors

Since 2016 we have been working on the *Five Pillar framework* for *commons-based business models*. And while it has greatly evolved through practice in commons-collaborative economy programmes and platform coops and #SSE courses, we hadn't published too much about it.

Now here's an introduction with the necessary references: https://freeknowledge.eu/five-pillar-model-commons-business-models

thanks to @femprocomuns, Labcoop & many cooperative commons businesses

#businessmodels #opensource #commons #democratictech #sustainability

My UKSG 2025 starts with Beth Bayley from Karger on their journey since deciding fo head for OA in 2018.

They've "tried it all": flipping, hybrid, transformative agreements, Subscribe To Open (S20), Diamond.

There's barriers to adopting each OA business model.

#OpenAccess #JournalPublishing #UKSG2025 #BusinessModels #Karger

#DigitalSovereignity: "The real power move for #creators is #ownership and control of their work and livelihoods. This freedom is actually closer for more people than ever before! Learn from two #fediverse futurists [@molly0xfff & @mike] how #decentralizedsocialmedia facilitates #betterpublishing, #community, and #businessmodels.
Speakers will cover where creators should focus their energies, and how they might thrive with or without #walledgarden social platforms."
https://schedule.sxsw.com/2025/events/PP147154

#MardiLecture 🇫🇷

📖 "Modèle économique des établissements publics - Cas de l'IGN et du Cerema", rapport de l'Inspection générale de l'environnement et du développement durable
#BusinessModels

👉 https://igedd.documentation.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/notice?id=Affaires-0013652&reqId=148e9daf-7cc7-4f93-af43-991c4f1841e5&pos=1