Back to school

By Ian, on August 14th, 2006

So it’s Number Two in what appears to be my impromptu new series, “I don’t really do product stuff, but this guy emailed me…”. Alex Weidmann was kind enough to get in touch about his new Web 2.0 service, mynoteIT, and then to answer my rude ques­tions about the business behind it.

Again, this

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5 power laws in Web 2.0

By Ian, on August 7th, 2006

With all this talk of long tails and the empower­ment of con­sumers, it’s easy to imagine that everyone is going to succeed. To satisfy my scep­tical bent, I have con­sequently assembled a list of places and areas that I think we can safely assume will obey a Pareto curve, also called a power law. That means that 80% of the

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