A) if you can dramatically lower the cost of production and distribution, you can offer far more variety. B) given more variety and the tools to easily organize it for individual taste, people will increasingly revel in their differences, rather than sett
These probabilistic systems aren't perfect, but they are statistically optimized to excel over time and large numbers. They're designed to scale, and to improve with size. And a little slop at the microscale is the price of such efficiency at the macrosca
de-portalization represents a change in the relative weight of portals in a traffic sense, and the emergence of what I call the “foothills” as a major source of traffic. This will affect money flows. Portals will remain both large and will continue to
The result of unbundling, disaggregation, the loss of pipe control (to use Andy Kessler’s construct) — i.e. the inability to force people to consume content they don’t want — is that content businesses don’t scale anymore.But all those MySpace p
long tail businesses disproportionately benefit the aggregator. While they create new opportunities for content providers "down the tail" who might not otherwise have been noticed, they create even greater collective benefits for the Amazon, the Google, t
The biggest argument for hyper aggregation is modern life’s biggest constraint: time. No one can argue about the value of niche content, especially for niche-ists. However, most of the population at large falls in the middle. There is a desire to get th
MIt dem LongTail verdienen zuerst die Aggregatoren und Filterer. Aber nicht nur die. Durch geringere Poduktionskosten sind auch die Produzenten von Content im Tail sehr profitabel und sie müssen es gar nicht in den Mainstream schaffen um zu verdienen.
