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What's the connection between Web 2.0 and the Long Tail? In a brainstorming session at FOO Camp this year, Tim O'Reilly put all the pieces together with this graphic:
It's discussed more on Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 blog.
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This is really great stuff. I have been working on a project recently about consumers becoming creators and this is a great reference piece for it...
Posted by: Chris Gilbey | September 25, 2005 at 02:42 PM
Chris...that graphic was A LOT of info. I'd be interested in a more concise analysis of how you see Web 2.0 as part of The Long Tail. Feel free to add your thoughts during our blogoposium this coming Wednesday.
Posted by: Ken | September 25, 2005 at 10:52 PM
Will this be on the mid-term? But seriously, folks, this is excellent - looks like "we" are finally starting to focus on results, versus creativity for creativity's sake. I talk to clients all the time who are incredibly frustrated with their web marketing - they a web designer to build a really purty site...and they can't update it themselves, nobody can find them and Google ignores them. To add insult to expensive injury, the designer lacked any kind of business background and only the fuzziest handle on the software, so the site is full of dead-ends and broken links.
Posted by: Mary Schmidt | September 26, 2005 at 11:09 AM
Is it just me, or is "All Rights Reserved" at the bottom of the original size Flickr upload of that graphic more than a little ironic?
Posted by: Tom Guarriello | September 26, 2005 at 12:11 PM
Turns out ALL original size Flickr images display an "All Rights Reserved" copyright.
Posted by: Tom Guarriello | September 28, 2005 at 05:31 AM
Tim O'Reilly sums up the benefits to Long Tail book authors in having their works available via the Google Library Project in a New York Times op-ed piece.
Posted by: Nick | September 29, 2005 at 02:26 PM
I am not a big fan of the "Web 2.0" meme. Neither are any of my fellow programming friends. In terms of the Software Engineering paradigm, most programmers I talk to laugh at the phrase "Web 2.0" and point out it's meaningless.
I am not insulting Tim O'Reilly here; rather I am making it clear that there is a difference between "Web 2.0" the term used by marketers... and "Web 2.0" the term no programmer wishes to speak or think.
If you are going to use an idea to describe technology, I think it's important to have the support of the real developers of the technology.
Posted by: John "Z-Bo" Zabroski | September 30, 2005 at 09:09 AM