If The Long Tail is the basis of the future of Internet, then isn't the Lifestream phenomenon going against that?
The basic premise of The Long Tail is that the internet has made it possible distribute low volume highly focused content (well just about anything) at no cost at all. Changing how we produce and distribute things.
As you can read in the Wikipedia article on The Long Tail, it has many applications.
You could say that the internet has enabled the Long Tail, but it is also a Long Tail in itself.
That is visible in the increasing number of blogs, niche/specialized services like rent-a-bag.com, lulu.com... you name some youself and put them in a comment please :)
It's all services that provides or enables you to provide niche products in low volumne to a large audience.
My argument
Lifestreaming services that make an effort in collecting and dirstibuting a persons digital life into one big stream - the biggest and brightest right now: friendfeed.com
- is going against the theory of The Long Tail
I'm a person:
- i have many interestes
- i have different friend or friend-groups
- i express my interestest different to different people
I'm a distrubition of products:
- I have many products
- I have different customers or customer-groups
- I express/distribute my products diffrent to different customers
Well according to the Long Tail.
So in essens, I should Long Tail my stream going towads the 80% and not the 20% shown in the green area on the graph...
I should have many streams depending on what product i'm distributing and who is the intented reciver.
Short example: My friends might like to see photo's of me doing acrobatics last saturday, but my parents might not, though they might like to see the photos of me on holiday...
Get my point?
As you can read in the Wikipedia article on The Long Tail, it has many applications.
You could say that the internet has enabled the Long Tail, but it is also a Long Tail in itself.That is visible in the increasing number of blogs, niche/specialized services like rent-a-bag.com, lulu.com... you name some youself and put them in a comment please :)
It's all services that provides or enables you to provide niche products in low volumne to a large audience.
My argument
Lifestreaming services that make an effort in collecting and dirstibuting a persons digital life into one big stream - the biggest and brightest right now: friendfeed.com
- is going against the theory of The Long Tail
I'm a person:
- i have many interestes
- i have different friend or friend-groups
- i express my interestest different to different people
I'm a distrubition of products:
- I have many products
- I have different customers or customer-groups
- I express/distribute my products diffrent to different customers
Well according to the Long Tail.
So in essens, I should Long Tail my stream going towads the 80% and not the 20% shown in the green area on the graph...
I should have many streams depending on what product i'm distributing and who is the intented reciver.
Short example: My friends might like to see photo's of me doing acrobatics last saturday, but my parents might not, though they might like to see the photos of me on holiday...
Get my point?
