Sep 06
28
The 80/20 Rule
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I came across an interesting white paper (written by Erik Brynjolfsson (MIT), Yu “Jeffrey” Hu (Perdue University) and Duncan Simester (MIT)) when browsing Chris Anderson's site (he of Long sTail fame).
It is about the changing cost of distribution of long tail products with the increasing utilisation of search.
Not just of academic value – a very interesting ingredient in the debate about continuing disintermediation, and worth a read…