Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: smp
22 Dec 2004The reason why the Long Tail concept seemed so familiar to me is that I work with the statistical cousin to the marketing term, the Heavy Tail.
The term Heavy Tail is used to describe a dataset that is not "normally" (in the statistical sense; think Bell Curve) distributed. Internet performance data is notoriously heavy-tailed, with [...]
Thoughts on the China Market
In: Commentary
1 Sep 2008At the The China Vortex, Paul Denlinger discusses how there is no unified “China market”, no monolithic, simplistic, single-minded Goliath that the rest of the world is trying to deal with. While I do not have the depth of on the ground experience that Mr. Denlinger has (I have not yet been blessed with the [...]