The fat tail will be human, the medium tail social, the long tail algorithmic
Jeff Jarvis is liveblogging a DLD panel discussion between Jimmy Wales (Wikia) and Jason Calacanis (Mahalo), with Marissa Meyer (Google) in the front row. They’re discussing human-driven search (Mahalo and Wikia) vs. algorithmic search (Google). And then comes this fascinating exchange:
“Esther Dyson says the problem with their model is the long tail. If she were starting a company she’d do something else. “Ok, I’m going to kill myself now,” laughed [Calacanis? Unclear] He says that
