UMBC ebiquity » long tail http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger EBB is the ebiquity research group\\\'s blog at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). We focus on technologies that facilitate the design, implementation and control of distributed, intelligent information systems -- mobile and pervasive computing, ad hoc networking, multiagent systems, knowledge representation and reasoning, and the semantic web. As the tides of technology ebb and flow, we hope the good ideas wash up on our beach and the bad ones drift back out to sea. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Aim for the fat part of the tail http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/18/aim-for-the-fat-part-of-the-tail/ http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2008/07/18/aim-for-the-fat-part-of-the-tail/#comments Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:10:27 +0000 Tim Finin http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/?p=1562 I like this image from Seth Godin’s post on The Long Tail and the Dip.


Profit pockets on the tail

He argues that shooting for the head (#1) takes too much effort and money, but it doesn’t mean you have to resign yourself to life out on the thin part of the long tail (#3) — you can aim for “profit pocket #2″.

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