For me, the long tail for a patient like her is three to four years.
Drop off the handsets on the long tail, and it becomes an easier task to manage.
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But the long tail is certainly one of the internet's better gifts to humanity.
In time, it would expose the long tail of non-performing assets in their portfolios.
Narrow innovation is essentially about serving the slender market segments that the long tail and globalization bring.
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We are headed towards an era of mass differentiation, markets where the long tail is the main market.
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The long tail of the Internet is epistemologically very hard to comprehend.
Microsoft has been so focused on courting the movie studios that they've completely lost track of the long tail that is the users.
My belief is there is a mirror-image of the long tail that is equally important to those wanting to understand the process of innovation.
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Both companies also monetize the long tail, that is, take advantage of the limitless digital shelf space to help sell even the smallest niche products.
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Lisbonne says Luminate started with the big publishers, now is moving to mid-sized publishers and will eventually go after the long tail of user-generated content.
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Meanwhile, just as YouTube is shifting gently away from user-generated content and the long tail, Apple is making key changes that could signal something significant.
One weakness of this otherwise excellent book is that it tries to apply the theory of the long tail to fields far beyond entertainment and e-commerce.
Mr Anderson has backed away somewhat from his original article in Wired in which he suggested that the long tail would be a bigger market than the hits.
But it will likely miss much of the long tail.
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The number of such schools needs to grow rapidly in order to cut the long tail of underachievement which blights the education service in the disadvantaged areas of England.
It's one of several handmade craft sites that use the Web to tug on the long tail of artists worldwide who previously sold only to people in their community.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will move like hotcakes come fall, but any revenue from the long tail of previous games is going straight to Gamestop and rental shops.
Netflix has engineered a near lock on subscription streaming video by offering the long tail wherever consumers might want to watch: on smartphones, Blu-ray players, game consoles, PCs and tablets.
But if individuals have the opportunity to pick better, more ideally suited entertainment from a far wider selection, they will take it, according to the theory of the long tail.
At its southern end, the district has lost the long tail that had dangled all the way to rural Gilroy and taken in some remote Santa Cruz County turf along the way.
The reason is that providers will be able to take the data to improve their services and better personalize learning for all students, especially the long tail of students that districts often struggle to serve.
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The Internet was supposed to be about the long tail: In 2004 Wired editor Chris Anderson wrote a seminal article describing how the Web would create limitless choice and revive interest in deep reaches of music, book and video archives.
My guess is that if it is done right, collaborative filtering of content can expose the long tail better than the current cable bundle, at which point Apple (or some other company) would really have something to talk to the cable companies about.
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Having common standards across the country could begin to reward content providers that target the long tail of learners because they would help to aggregate demand across the country, as opposed to what happens today where those providers that tailor their offerings to different and idiosyncratic state standards, for example, are rewarded.
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The business helped advertisers efficiently buy ad impressions at-scale across the long-tail of the web and its oceans filled with trillions of seemingly undifferentiated ad banners.
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It turns out that the long-tail theory, while true, has a nonintuitive corollary: Aggregators are the ones who benefit most from all that choice.
The whole long tail thing is going to be even more than it is today.
The "long tail" of sites with few or no links leading to them is largely forgotten.
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