Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory of distribution is (at least to me) fairly self evident. I’ve just found in my personal life and that of my friends, more and more splintering of our attention and interests.
That being said, his recent post about the Nintendo Wii’s Virtual Console (their downloadable games marketplace) was laughable. I have [...]
The Extremely Stubby Tail
Distributing Distribution
ReadWriteWeb and some others have recently posted about RedSwoosh after they made the boast that they could save Apple $15 million dollars and that their service was more efficient than BitTorrent. You’re supposed to “swoosh” your link by pre-pending them with a URL they give you (and that you can find on the front [...]
Why not to follow nofollow
Wikipedia is making an understandable, but lamentable decision to add the no-follow link attribute to all of their outbound links. It’s a directive telling Google and the other search engine operators not to follow a particular link because it should not be considered authoritative. You can read more about it on Google’s site, titled: [...]
Atoms vs Bits in Entertainment
Clive Thompson has done a couple posts on the issues with High Definition content making Hollywood (and Porn) stars less attractive by virtue of accurately displaying what they look like.
He concludes that many of the Hollywood A-Listers will be shut out in a similar manner to the changing of the guard with the moves [...]
Audience Influenced Comic Stripping
PVP Online is an awesome online comic strip that is high on my daily reading list. I’m consistently amazed at how well Scott Kurtz is able to shove humor into every daily strip and at the same time carry forward a story arc: serialized humor at it’s best.
Scott is a very bright guy and [...]
Gamers Attention
The MIT AdverLab points to a study by Bunnyfoot stating that there is an “…engagement between video game players and in-game advertising in sports titles.”
I’ve seen something similar in SecondLife: there are a number of different advertising networks who seem to buy up small blocks of land onto which they throw huge numbers of small [...]
Hosting Suckage
I’ve been looking around for some new hosting and have had two really disheartening experiences just attempting to sign up with a couple different places.
Dreamhost promises account activation in 24 hours, but 96 hours later had failed to so much as send me an email, much less deign to you know, charge my credit [...]
Drag. Drop. Upload.
For my work I spend a lot of time sending multiple sets of files back and forth with people over GMail. If you’re a big Gmail user your finger may have winced at that first sentence as attaching multiple files is a big pain as compared to Outlook or any other desktop mail application.
Attaching [...]
The other “Proof”
I came across a bunch of crazy pictures of shot up cars today after Gmail decided that my email about getting the proof images approved meant I was interested in heavily armored cars. Here are a few of my favorite images from the HPC company site:
Holy Crap! Somebody hates Volkswagens:
Those aren’t snowballs
While those are impressive [...]
The other kind of “Open”
Boris has waded into the whole “Is the iPhone a closed platform?” debate.
A real game changer for this with respect to Apple is that having a real browser on the phone means that’s it’s open in a different way than we’re used to discussing with mobile platforms. As an example of this, checkout Nintendo’s [...]