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Online Communication, Learning, Long Tail, & Change

Big Dog, Little Dog

Good News, Bad News about Facebook Application Market: Long Tail Rules - O'Reilly. The good news has already been widely disseminated: there are nearly 5000 Facebook applications, and the top applications have tens of millions of installs and millions of active users. All pieces of the slide rule are draggable.

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The Long Tail backlash, exposing flaws in mainstream media

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I think for the most part anyone with a small entrepreneurial bone in their body instinctively understands the concept of the long tail. Chris Anderson, the author of The Long Tail, writes this post in response the Wall Street Journal article that tries (unsuccessfully) to tear down the book and the concept. Enter Web2.0,

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 01/17/2007

Big Dog, Little Dog

Dog or Tail. the next Long Tail or a dog ? Related links: The Long Tail and B2B. What is especially impressive about Apple's feat is that [Apple] did it with an R&D spend that is one-tenth the size of Microsoft's annual spend, and that they did it during a period of otherwise flat industry performance.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/25/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Study: Distractions Impede Learning - ABC News. What's new is that even if you can learn while distracted, it changes how you learn to make it less efficient and useful," said Russell A. The Wrong Tail: How to turn a powerful idea into a dubious theory of everything - Slate. The Expert Mind - Scientific American.

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Jay Cross - Untitled Article

Jay Cross

Not that SharePoint is the only game in town: IBM ( IBM - news - people ), Oracle ( ORCL - news - people ), SAP ( SAP - news - people ), Sun Microsystems ( JAVA - news - people ) and others offer their own collaboration solutions. Maybe I don’t really want to know.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/18/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

An author with a 'long tail' - c/net. When Wired Magazine published an article called "The Long Tail," it immediately became a phenomenon on the order of Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point.". That is set to change. Problems with Bloom's Taxonomy - ISPI (via Will Thalheimer ).

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Learning 2.0 Strategy

Clark Quinn

You need to be able to spot new kinds of opportunities that you might not have been involved in before (see Long Tail Learning ). Strategy because you have to be prepared to provide these new services and solutions. You need to be prepared to apply learning 2.0 In defense of the title - I still call it a Learning 2.0