Long Tail: You heard it first

If you google "long tail" and "overused term" you don't (yet) get hits on this happening.

So, right here on this stage: The overused term for 2005 is long tail. Yowsa, everybody's using that phrase. Anybody remember 'eyeballs', clicks vs. bricks and other such fun dot bomb catchy phrases.

Long tail; enough already....

(This is what put me over the edge, sorry Persuadio)

Startup Persuadio visualizes opportunity in the Internet's long tail by ZDNet's David Berlind -- As an event, Esther Dyson's PC Forum is one of hottest annual tickets in the technology and venture capital worlds. The gathering plays host to some of the most successful technologists in the world, some of the most outspoken visionaries, as well as startups that are surviving on second mortgages and credit cards in hopes of scoring some funding. To get a glimpse inside the mind of one such entrepreneur, I interviewed Mitch Ratcliffe, the founder of Persuadio -- a company that was handpicked by Esther Dyson to demonstrate its technology here at the event in Scottsdale, AZ.One of Persuadio's projects is called MyDensity.com. If one Ratcliffe quote from the interview best embodies MyDensity's most tangible deliverable, it's this one:

Comments

[David Locke]

Well, the long tail was a hit. So now, like other hits before it, it will move down the long tail and take up a position consistent with the strength of the idenity asscribed to by the long tailers. The long tail created its own culture. Culture is exclusive and asymetrical in its information distribution. Heading off to the niche just means that the long tail will drag its belivers and its detractors with it.