Open Research

this is a great article capturing the how we wish to leverage the power of "open research" to invite researchers from around the world to collaborate on our efforts:

http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=376

All the world's a stage!

Two-sided Markets

Our challenge "giving away" Dance Chalat:

"Often the platform owner opens part of the platform, giving it away for free to one of these user groups, in order to make money from the other user group. So for example, buyers pay nothing to use the E-Bay service while sellers pay posting and sales fees. Job candidates can post resumes at recruiting sites while firms pay for access. Google gives away search for free in order to attract advertisers.

The trick is figure out how to match the groups of non-paying users with paying users and segment the market. If it’s done well, this also invokes network effects in ways that tend to lead to large dominant players as each side attracts more of the others.”

src: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=377