Posts Tagged with ‘Long-Tail’

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer must be jealous of the media attention received by the man filling his Attorney General shoes got this week with the passage this week of the pointless E-Stop legislation. That's the only explanation I can think of for his new plan to require companies to collect New York State sales tax for online purchases if they have $10,000 or more in sales in the state, even if they don't have a brick-and-mortar store there.
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One of the coolest things about all the new service sites is that they seem to have led to the development of an entire field of cottage industries around them. Some are businesses extending their reach by using Web 2.0 companies, while others are all-new businesses that have sprung up, and still others stumble upon a money-making opportunity using 2.0 they hadn't anticipated.
File Blendtec under the last category. The commercial blender company, based in Orem, Utah, has just 186 employees, [...]

I was reading an older post from Shoutblog that, in turn, referenced Chris Anderson's The Long Tail. The post started out describing two friends making an "all time top 10 list" of songs, but found as they voted out choices that weren't the same for both of them, they headed toward the Billboard charts, leaving edginess and originality behind for the common music that everyone seems to know.
The trend that seems to be taking hold of many Web 2.0 companies [...]

We’re hours away from 2007 and nary a list of predictions has cropped up here on Profy. What gives? Maybe our dubious overlords (I’m not sure what the secrecy clause in the contract said about mentioning the gods of Web 2.0 openly. Oh well.) have instituted a crack down I never received notice of. Or, maybe, just maybe, we’re trying to cover our bases by preempting a year of “Ha-ha, you were wrong!” with silence. Whatever the case maybe, I [...]

Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0 came up with a thought provoking discussion on why content businesses don’t scale any more; together with his discussion on the Long Tail of Revenue, there’s some insights that any Web 2.0 venture needs to think of.
Last spring I wrote about the Long Tail of Revenue 2.0, observing that the most of the revenue goes to aggregators in the head, and the rest is spread very thinly across an ever growing and ever thinning tail [...]

Jason Calacanis has an interesting take on the real story of Web 2.0; he sees the bells and whistles of technology being far less responsible for the growth of Web 2.0, the real driver being the growth in online advertising.
Chicken or egg?
Jason identifies the factors driving the growth in online advertising
a) there are more advertisers online today.
b) it’s getting easier to spend money online
c) Google Adsense/Adwords (a huge part of part B above)
d) Yahoo, MSN, AOL, and Google reaching [...]