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September 26, 2006

Why Long Tails need filters, Calvin and Hobbes version

Bill Watterson anticipated the world Barry Schwartz warns of and I celebrate. If only you could Google the supermarket and rank by ratings and reviews.

 

  

Thanks to reader Ian Samuel for the great find.

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That's too much for me.
I was waiting the right time to try to contact you but with Calvin I must jump into the water.... that's what I call an "assonance" and that's all the fun of culture.

I'be working with a friend on collaborative tool for entertainement goods for now 2 years. We've reached something that is quite acceptable @ www.u-lik.com . I'll be glad to discuss it with you and you'll get a premium access to our data the day we reach a larger size.

Thanks you so much, you've been very helpufull over the last few months.

It's late in paris so please excuse my syntax and consider this post as a small bottle in the long tail of content.
If by any chance you come to paris i'll be glad to offer you a glass of wine taken from our long tail of tastes and a discussion around Zipf.

;-)

I just heard that you were in paris.
So it's a too late bottle.

Radio Frequency ID (RFID) will make it possible for a store to have instant display of the most popular items...

All we need now is Calvin peeing on Pirates of the Carribean...maybe the last hit we will ever see...

I think I will open the peanut butter web site. Smooth and oily seems to be in demand.

Oops, I just googled to check, there are already 18,100,000 results for peanut butter.

I shop online for groceries in Minneapolis and the service, Simon Delivers, does offer product sorting based on popularity. It really speeds things up when you're looking for things you don't really care to shop that thoroughly, like spices or paper napkins. I tend to just sort the search results by popularity and add whatever comes to the top to my cart on the assumption that others have actually shopped the products and made rational choices based on price and quality.

You can get ratings of grocery stores....consumerreports.org

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