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The Long Tail review
Reviews The basic notion of the long tail is that although a handful of blockbuster hits take a massive proportion of the market, there is good business to be found in the large majority of non-hits that are sold into niches.
[March 23, 2007, 9:17]
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. We look at Google as the long tail of advertising and eBay as the long tail of hard goods.
[July 24, 2006, 16:45]
Tail Gunner (PowerPC)
Downloads Tail Gunner is an arcade action game based on the classic video game of the same name. Your responsibility is to defend a cruising space ship under attack from hostile fighters. Sitting in the rear of the ship, you can fire two kinds of weapons to...
[December 4, 1998, 0:32]
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]
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]
WaSP takes sting out of its tail
News A group formed to sting browser makers into hewing to industry standards says from now on it's using honey, not vinegar, to get the job done. Last week, following a 15-month hiatus, the Web Standards Project (WaSP) declared its initial mission was...
[February 19, 2003, 9:26]
China opens up to e-tail
News On 16 March, businesses outside China will be able to register .cn domain names for the first time ever -- providing Western e-tailers the opportunity to gain access to the country's vast and rapidly growing online population.
[March 11, 2003, 9:03]
Virus-writer turns tail, covers tracks
News "Raid", a virus-writer who distributed the Toadie.exe virus and then taunted the authorities on a number of public newsgroups, could now be trying to cover his tracks, according to one anti-virus expert.
[August 26, 1999, 3:00]
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]
VNUNet - Blogs, Wikis and the Long Tail
White Papers The social networking phenomenon is upon individual, and it seems that half the world (in reality, less than one sixth) is instant messaging, blogging, wiki-ing and generally collaborating and communicating in new and exciting ways.
[February 21, 2009, 0:24]
Forecasts clash on year-end e-tail sales
News Most of the big e-tail and retail companies are interested in what we think they're going to do, but they factor our info in with their own intelligence. The answer depends on whom you talk to. Surveys from research firms such as Jupiter and...
[November 8, 2001, 15:18]
Demand for elusive PS2 swamps e-tail sites
News Anxious parents and hardcore gamers are clogging the Web sites of online stores in search of the popular PlayStation2. Amid the consumer frenzy to buy the much sought-after games console, several Internet retailers, including Amazon.com, BestBuy...
[November 30, 2000, 10:00]
Heads or Tail
Downloads A chance game that tests your psychic energy by flipping a coin to win a beer against your PocketPC. Heads or Tails is an originally flash game playable on most platforms. It is fast and easy to play.
[September 10, 2002, 8:00]
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Talkback . ISO knows this stuff. They know the Ecma - OASIS vendor consortia channel has to be closed. They know they have a serious problem that will destroy their credibility. My guess is that Patrick Durusau has already announced one plan to save ISO.
[March 3, 2008, 18:18]
Follow Mouse
Downloads You can choose the tail color, the layer where it's drawn, the update frequency in updates per second, the segment counts and wether the tail automatically goes away. This application is freeware and comes with included source as an example...
[May 30, 2005, 8:00]
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]
Snake Game for iPhone
Downloads In Snake Game for iPhone if snake swallows a mouse, the point is increasing and simultaneously the tail of the snake is extending. Meantime, snake swallows an item, the length of tail is shortened and whenever it swallows an item it is triggering...
[October 27, 2009, 5:06]
Linux Server Hacks: Send Log Messages to Your Jabber Client
White Papers There is no need to open 50 different terminal windows to tail logs on all of the web servers. Instead, just opens one session to the central log host, tail the log, and go about the business. But what if one could have the really important log...
[October 24, 2007, 1:00]
Thorny topic
Talkback "It's wagging its tail" or "Its wagging it's tail". Old school the apostrophe here should be for the possessive but as with many areas of grammar modern useage allows for either of the above to be "correct" or simply don't use the apostrophe at all.
[April 17, 2007, 11:56]
