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Continuing The Legacy Of 'The Long Tail'
News When Wired Magazine published an article called The Long Tail, it immediately became a phenomenon on the order of Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point. Q: How did you come up with the phrase the "long tail"?
[July 24, 2006, 16:45]
Fraudsters Catch On To The Net's 'long Tail'
News The top 80 percent of scams were concentrated on 15 brands, according to the report, but the large number of brands targeted by the remaining 20 percent shows that the Internet's so-called "long tail" effect is beginning to apply in the world of...
[September 12, 2006, 12:20]
The Long Tail Of Risk And The Dynamics Of The Security Market
White Papers An organization's platform and its risks are never in equilibrium for long; as long as equilibrium exists, risks are under control and the bad guys are denied their payday. But bad guys need to feed their families, so they're constantly developing...
[July 18, 2008, 11:17]
Bootstrapping The Long Tail In Peer To Peer Systems
White Papers The provision of digitized content on-demand to millions of users presents a formidable challenge. With an ever increasing number of fixed and mobile devices with video capabilities, and a growing consumer base with different preferences, there is...
[January 7, 2007, 0:00]
Viruses Bring A Sting In The Tail
Leader It's a new twist to the old long-tail principle that other industries are just beginning to wake up to, such as online book retailers who make half their total sales from books that individually sell only a couple of copies a month.
[June 2, 2005, 14:00]
Yahoo Agrees Search-ad Deal With Google
News Yahoo monetises very competitively with Google for query ads but is not as competitive in the tail," she said, referring to the long statistical tail consisting of a large number of infrequent searches.
[June 13, 2008, 8:35]
Get Your LEGO Steve Jobs Today!
Blog Ok - so there is the long tail - and then there's the looooooonnnnng tail. Internet economics mean that almost any niche is a market but come on - a site that specialises in making LEGO brick recreations of iPod-related events?
[August 28, 2007, 10:42]
Bliss Island
Downloads A small furry blue creature, with a thick strong neck, a fluffy tail and a long trunk from which he can emit precision puffs of air. Hoshi is a Zwooph. He inhabits a small tropical island where he spends his days, along with the other Zwoophs...
[July 15, 2006, 5:46]
Kangaroos 3D
Downloads This ability comes from their very muscular back legs and long tail that helps them keep their balance. In the Australian Outback, you'll meet the largest marsupial in the world - the Giant Red Kangaroo.
[May 24, 2007, 18:31]
Analysis Of The Competition Between Wired, DSL And Wireless TCP Flows In An Access Network
White Papers This paper analyzes the performance of a large population composed of several classes of long lived TCP flows experiencing packet losses due to random transmission errors and to congestion created by the sharing of a common tail-drop or AQM...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Boa Constrictor Color
Downloads If you feel it has become too long and unwieldy, try to bite off the last segment of its tail. From the developer: ""Boa Constrictor is a great arcade game, which is based upon the good old SnakePit, and adds a host of new features and tricks.
[May 10, 2002, 15:32]
Combat Wings: Battle Of Britain
Downloads You'll be rewarded with bonus missions, promotions, decorations, and a view of burning Berlin from the tail turret of a Halifax bomber. If you hold off the enemy long enough, you'll be the first to fly the Hawker Tornado and Westland Whirlwind into...
[October 4, 2006, 18:00]
Independent Music: The Mouse Is Roaring
News In part, this is a recognition among the big music services of the importance of the 'long tail' -- the idea that virtually all back catalogue and independent releases will draw a few fans, and that the aggregate consumption of all these...
[June 15, 2005, 16:40]
HP: Open Source Can Be More Profitable Than Proprietary
News But the revenue has a long tail as well. The sales and procurement cycles are long: it's usually a major technology overhaul to decide whether it is technically feasible and to review processes," he said.
[October 29, 2006, 13:03]
Phishers Get Smarter
News Brands in the favourites list tend to remain for a long time -- most of the big names are here -- and the ones in the tail frequently change. The visible trend is that there is a consistent set of favourite brands targetted by phishers combined...
[June 6, 2005, 13:20]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com Homecomings
News Officials sang a happy tune -- positive cash flow in the fourth quarter, integration between retail, e-tail and catalogue sales, and advertising opportunity -- but if iTurf shares didn't tank this merger wouldn't have happened.
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
Schools Panic Over WiFi
Blog It seems to be a case of the tail wagging the dog (and a pretty ignorant tail as well). At this rate, we'll have to strip out all mobile basestations, all access points and all long wave radio masts from anywhere where it could transmit signals to...
[November 21, 2006, 10:29]
On-form Microsoft Attacks Adobe
News It's kind of catching the tiger by the tail," Yockelson said. This does represent a potential long-term threat to the direction in which Adobe is taking Acrobat -- changing static PDF templates into dynamic, interactive electronic forms," Gay wrote...
[October 10, 2002, 8:42]
BBC IPlayer Chalks Up 75m Downloads
News There was also evidence of a "long-tail" effect, with around a quarter of total programme consumption made up of programmes outside the top 20. The BBC iPlayer online, on-demand TV service has hit 75 million in streamed or downloaded programmes...
[May 21, 2008, 9:00]
Survey Finds Execs Rethinking IT Budgets
News Until the industry speeds up implementations and makes integration much more simple, the long tail on shelfware implementation will likely continue to be a problem," the report found. Growing numbers of chief information officers are re-evaluating...
[July 11, 2002, 14:57]
