For me, the long tail for a patient like her is three to four years.
The dinosaur had a very long tail, up to twice the length of its body.
Long tail less frequently accessed content disproportionately enhances the overall value of an active archive.
All three companies also have a long tail of steady-earning but generally less profitable local brands.
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.
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.
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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In other words, there is a persistent long tail opportunity in business software.
Whoever captures the customer will enjoy a long tail of future book purchases.
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It seems likely that this recession will have a long tail in terms of its impact on jobs and housing.
Beneath these is a long tail of smaller operators, many of them online, from the legitimate to the thoroughly dodgy.
While this business clearly has a long tail, newer entrants appear to be having trouble coming up with regular deals to offer.
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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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And in a world where leadership is becoming more and more of a long tail phenomenon, Natascha is perhaps the most important kind of leader.
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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It has what is known as a long tail - it takes several years for claims to materialise on policies taken out several years previously.
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.
Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.
There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin.
"EBay's long tail was historically considered a weakness, " says analyst Gillis.
Although that is a higher proportion than in developed economies, it still leaves a long tail of smaller firms which may be less well run.
He could imagine himself surviving far out in that long tail.
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.
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