UNE EUROPÉENNE NOMMÉE SOPHIE (sophiedalbin.canalblog.com):
… des hits sous exclusivité (pour attirer la demande) et une ample sélection de "petits titres" (pour faire valoir un effet volume et se différencier des offres concurrentes)". En réponses aux critiques, Chris Anderson soulignesur son blogque "la longue traîne reste encore une force culturelle plutôt qu’une force économique" ( the Long Tail is still more of a cultural force than an economic one ). …

Antoine Savard (as.typepad.com):
… dans le fait de laisser croire que la numérisation et quelques dispositifs de recommandation produiront à eux tout seuls un marché différent, plus divers, plus innovant, plus vivant. Ceci, on le sait aujourd’hui, est faux. Chris Anderson a beaus’en défendre sur son blog …

broadstuff (broadstuff.com):
… You would have thought that after Harvard, McKinsey, Google, Amazon, Will Page and Apple debunked it, in fact even after the original authorclimbed down, the Long Tail Theory would be dead by now*. But no, Techdirt rides in to its rescuscitation: There have been a series of criticisms to Chris Anderson's concept of "The Long Tail" lately. While most don't hold up under scrutiny, a few have made some …

Answers Corner (answerscorner.net):
… not perhaps in the perspective it offers, but in fact imply that the scanning devices and some recommendation to produce; them alone a different, more diverse, more innovative, more alive. This, we now know, is false. Chris Anderson beautiful a>to defendhis blog, we also feel embarrassed: “ This is not just about money. I have said repeatedly, most of the benefits of trains are non-monetary hearing more producers, more choice for consumers. This produces some economic benefits, sometimes not. Today, 10 years after th …

InternetActu.net (www.internetactu.net):
… dans le fait de laisser croire que la numérisation et quelques dispositifs de recommandation produiront à eux tout seuls un marché différent, plus divers, plus innovant, plus vivant. Ceci, on le sait aujourd’hui, est faux. Chris Anderson a beaus’en défendre sur son blog, on le sent également embarrassé : “Ce n’est pas qu’une question d’argent. Je l’ai dit et redit, la plupart des bénéfices de la Traîne sont non-monétaires : plus d’audience pour les producteurs, plus de choix pour les consommateurs. …

The Evolving Internet Marketer (www.gemsolv.com):
… #18 said that the Long Tail ( <–click this link for a definition ), as championed by Wired Magazine Editor Chris Anderson, will be even more important to small business in the year ahead. Only problem is that Mr. Anderson has, himself,largely discredited the notion of the long tail, writing… I’ll end by conceding a point: It’s hard to make money in the Tail… the revenues are disproportionately in the Head. Perhaps that will never change. The Register wrote about the study that derailed the long trail train in November 7, 2008 post …

The Long Tail (www.thelongtail.com):
… when inventory grows by orders of magnitude. She also defines head and tail in a way that doesn’t make sense and doesn’t correspond to my own definitions). Watts’ work is more interesting, and touches on the same pointEric Schmidt from Google madeabout network effects creating winner-take-all consequences. My answer to that is that fortunately social media creates an infinite number of networks, many of them focused on niche subjects, so that many winners can take “all” of their micromarket, while still h …

Tracking Tourism: The Tourism Research Blog (blog.highlandbusinessresearch.com):
… etailers - and dare I suggest even travel industry analysts themselves - started to suggest that the long tail does not deliver on its market level revenue redistribute promise. Google delivered what may be the knock-out blow. As Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained (interview in full here) “It’s a 90/10 model. We love the long tail, but we make most of our money in the head”. So Pareto’s Law (the 80/20 distribution of pretty much anything) lives on?  Certainly, an unequal distribution suggests the significant bulk of reve …

soungalo in the world! (soungalo.blogspot.com):
… base.  Folks who are way smarter than I are saying that things are in general shifting the other way of positive (Google's Eric Schmidt says we're in a 90/10 economy - worse than the traditional 80/20 model for us in the smaller piece - http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2008/11/does-the-long-t.html). And I think that Dmitri's comment "What I take from the Long Tail model is that artists who in the old model did not have access or ability to sell music or make a living, now can" is a misreading of the long tail and  emergent …

IT News Wire (www.itnewswire.info):
… From [Techdirt] [Michael Masnick] It's been amusing to watch folks like Andrew Orlowski continue to misinterpret Chris Anderson'sslight admissionthat things in "the long tail" aren't exactly they way he'd predicted them to be. Of course, Orlowski entirely misses the point by assuming incorrectly (as many others have done) that the discussion of the long tail meant the death of "the blockbuster." That's not at all tru …

Mukundan Parthasarathy's Blog (mukundanps.wordpress.com):
… utilization levels. Now consider some of the business dynamics based on network effects: Metcalfe’s law: Value of a network is the square of the number of users (think LinkedIn, your very own Ning network etc) Power law: Proverbiallong-tailand the so called “Freemium” business model (i.e free software == zero cost marketing ), you pay when you need extra services. While few companies enjoy the “head” side of the power curve, things like AWS, Zembly speed up the deployment cycle all …