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Tag: Long Tail

  • First to Market, or First to Rate?

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    In the world of business the success of your idea depends hugely on word of mouth and feedback, especially with the Internet. The same is true of music, with new bands scrabbling to get any bandwidth with already saturated music lovers. In such a situation we often rely on music taste makers that we know…

  • Squidoo – Crowd Sourced SEO Friendliness

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    For some reason that escapes me now I started to spend a few hours playing around with Squidoo to create my own ‘lens’ on Smorkin’ Labbits, those cute little collectible rabbits that smoke. Squidoo was created by Seth Godin, amongst others, to enable experts (and fans) with minimal internet experience to create, manage and write…

  • Photosynth Presentation at TED

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    Thanks to Mateo for sending me this great presentation of the PhotoSynth work emerging from Microsoft’s Live Labs. What’s interesting to me about this is that way back when I read David Siegel’s excellent Futurize your Enterprise (from 1999) he discusses many of these kinds of applications made possible by fully described semantic data. This…