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Is the Long Tail Getting the Short End of the Stick?
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:11:42 CEST
The idea has gone from statistical curiosity to a deeply entrenched belief - especially in Silicon Valley: We are moving toward an economic state where it no longer becomes necessary to invest just in the top 1% of all ideas, but that instead an investor could create strategies using the web to take advantage of the statistical long tail - small niche markets (perhaps only one consumer deep) that ... Read more
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AVG Backs Down From Flooding the Internet
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:08:02 CEST
Simon Wright writes "As a website that is featured heavily in many Google Australia search results, Whirlpool (Australia's largest technology forum) has been particularly affected by AVG's LinkScanner. We've seen a traffic increase as much as 12 hits per second from these bots. So we've actively and loudly campaigned against this move by AVG, encouraging all users of AVG 8.0 to uninstall the produ... Read more
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Jesse Robbins Quote from New York Times
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:41:34 CEST
Jesse Robbins, Chair of the Velocity Conference, was quoted in today's New York Times in an article On the Web, More Outrage Over Outages written by Brad Stone. Here's a quote: Jesse Robbins, a former Amazon executive who was responsible...... Read more
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Polymorph Robot Mimics 'Human Joints And Muscles'
Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:08:11 CEST
Using polymorph plastic, some curtain rods, electric screwdrivers, motors, and a whole lot of mad-scientist creativity, an Xrobots hobbyist created this organic-looking robot base. By using wooden sockets and curtain rings as hip joints, the designer is clearly going for a human-like creature of doom here. Knee joints are kept moving with four moto... Read more
