Nivi (Free subscription) | yesterday
Many VCs use blogs to share their advice, wisdom, and thoughts. A few of them capture most of the attention. Everyone else slogs it out in the long tail. This chart graphs the Google Reader subscribers of 131 VC blogs (click the chart to zoom in). The underlying data is from Larry Cheng’s VC Blog Directory. I’m [...]
The Disillusioned Taxonomist (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Rhamphorhynchus jessoni (Lydekker, 1890) Rhamphorhynchidae; Pterosauria; Sauropsida; Chordata The rhamphorhynchoids were a group of pterosaurs, basal to the short-tailed pterodactyloids. It used to be thought that they formed a true grouping, but it seems that only the pterodactyloids form a true group within the Pterosauria, with the rhamphorhynchoids representing everything that doesn't make it into...
UK lass in US (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
I heard a shop playing Christmas music today, which made me smile. I know that some people think that it's too early, but I kind of like going around singing Christmas carols for a couple of months, even if my family dearly wished that I didn't... . Anyway, Autumn is pretty much passing me by. The local weather is not 'Autumnal' yet and, what with me and my daughter getting ill, we didn't even carve...
michaelzimmer.org (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
RT @privacylawyer: EU proposes black boxes for cars http://bit.ly/9RObj #privacy (see also http://bit.ly/1eaJVu) # RT @jafurtado: Libraries and the long tail: intro, by Lorcan Dempsey http://bit.ly/3a9Wdh #library2.0 # RT @jorisvanhoboken: University of Amsterdam gives Lessig honorary doctorate, awarded by IViR director Hugenholtz, http://bit.ly/3b4R33 # RT @iSchools: Deadline for submissions for the...
AppsFire.com ★ blog ★ (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Wow! we did not anticipate that our distribution graph would generate such a huge echo on the media and blogosphere - from ReadWriteWeb to PCWorld. We felt compelled to follow up with some thoughts. We'd like to bring some clarity on the confusion that our data has spread over many blog readers out there The 80%/20% rule is pretty universal to start with, and it’s no surprise to find it here...
FeedMyApp (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Rummble’s mission is to make it as easy as possible for you to find stuff nearby you like! Rummble is a service and platform all about the long tail of points of interest – the useful nuggets of info about the physical world we all have in our heads: e.g. the best picnic site, dog walk, kite surfing beach, vista of a city… As users interact with the service to share & discover...
AterSlash (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the ‘long tail’, in music recommendations. It’s well known that radio suffers from a popularity bias, where the most popular songs receive an inordinate amount of exposure.
Hodges' Model: Welcome to the Quad (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
"An idea is not an innovation until it r e a c h e s people." p.45 the myths of innovation , scott berkun O'Reilly At Drupalcon Paris in September in his keynote Dries (Buytaert) highlighted the importance of reach in that mix of: RICHNESS + R E A C H = SUCCESS As per the 'badge stack' lower right in a search for traffic a while back I registered with feedmil.com . They offer real-time feed...
Computer Nerds Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
brownerthanu writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the 'long tail', in music recommendations. It's well known that radio suffers from a popularity bias, where the most popular songs receive an inordinate amount of exposure. In Apple's music recommender system, iTunes' Genius, this bias is magnified. An...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
brownerthanu writes "Engineers at the University of California, San Diego are developing a system to include an ignored sector of music, dubbed the 'long tail', in music recommendations. It's well known that radio suffers from a popularity bias, where the most popular songs receive an inordinate amount of exposure. In Apple's music recommender system, iTunes' Genius, this bias is magnified. An...
Search Engine Guide (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
by Jeff Howard As the growth of local search continues, companies who serve large regions by remote service, warehouses, or otherwise should not feel disadvantaged from an obscure physical address. These companies can naturally optimize across a region by discovering how searches for niche areas occur within a larger region. Because so many searches are now localized a long tail of local phrases are...
Submitawebsite (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Web.com Search Agency offers a professional SEO Article Writing service that is designed to add high quality, unique content to your website. This service allows you to target more keywords on your site, increasing its search engine trust and visits. Our Web Article Writing service will generally result in more sales or leads and provide a quality foundation for long-term rankings stability and growth....
Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The long tail? Lots of apps for that… The sobering statistics come courtesy of AppsFire , an app tracking and sharing service that caters to iPhone customers. AppsFire analyzed the 100,000-plus apps in Apple's App Store to see how many were actively installed on users' devices. Its conclusion: not very many. According to AppsFire's analysis , by the time you hit the 1000th app (as far as popularity),...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Google released some interesting statistics today about Friend Connect, which is part of the search giant’s push to build a social layer across the web where visitors can get tailored experiences depending on their interests and friend network. So how has Friend Connect done since its launch last year? It’s on nine million sites Friend Connect sites attract about half a billion unique...
ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Apple today announced that the iTunes App Store now features over 100,000 applications for the iPhone and iPod touch. App Store users have downloaded over 2 billion applications. While Apple is obviously celebrating this as a success of its developer program, AppsFire reminds us that only a very small number of these apps are hits. According to AppsFire , the majority of apps sits in the App Store's...
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Zack Brandit | 06/29/2009
B rand-advocate, evangelist, ambassador, aficionado, etc. That’s a lot of names for one who tries to influence our purchase decisions. We listen to them, we sometimes trust them, but do we actually know them? Following a recent study by Mintel most American people who bought a product or service online did it based on recommendations by their friends and relatives; with other words someone they know...
blaneyw | 12/31/2008
It was the executive editor of Wired magazine, Chris Anderson, who first mentioned "The Long Tail" in an article published in 2004. He was writing about one of the most important aspects of successful niche marketing on the internet, o...
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