Archive for the 'Long Tail' Category

Some Popular Vlogs in light of Google Reader Feed Subscriptions

Today there has been a competitive wave rippling through the blogosphere: bloggers were checking the A-list blogs’ actual popularity through the number of Google Reader subscribers, plus their own. Knowing the top 100 is always interesting for some. TechCrunch has eventually come up with a flexible negotiable solution by using a Google spreadsheet on […]

Long Tail on Second Life by Chris Anderson

Let’s revisit Chris’ keynote on his book entitled The Long Tail:
Chris Anderson’s animated figure talked to an audience of animated figures on the virtual landscape of Second Life (October 2006), and here’s a somewhat eerie snippet of that conversation made by Millionsofus:
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Ilya Vedrashko gives a nice transcript of the dialog between Chris Anderson and Hamlet […]

The Long Tail keynote by Chris Anderson

As part of the Authors@Google series, Chris Anderson visited Google (July 18, 2006) to discuss his book, “The Long Tail.” The title refers to a phenomenon describing a well-known feature of statistical distributions (Wikipedia: also known as heavy tails, power-law tails, or Pareto tails) and has been capitalized popularized and creatively applied for web trends […]