Tag: distribution

Ninety-nine-one is everywhere in technology

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I’ve always been aware of the 90/9/1 split in terms of creating online content (ninety percent of people consume content, nine percent will interact with content, and one percent will create content) but I’ve never looked to see how it carries over into other areas of the geekerati’s world. Thankfully Charles Arthur has. What do operating systems, browsers and search engines all have in common? It seems to be a ratio of 90:9:1 between the key players. One player dominates; then others get a minimal share. Take mobile OSs: This week the Mozilla Foundation pulled the plug on Firefox OS

Who’ll Make Money From Streaming Music?

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Tim Carmody on The Verge: But even while streaming looks inevitable, in many ways its outlook is still grim — and it all comes down to money. Apple and music labels are reportedly still far apart on how much revenue they should share. Spotify wants music labels to lower the rates it pays as it tries to edge into profitability. Finally, Pandora’s CEO suddenly announced his resignation after a record loss and his inability to move Congress to pass legislation to lower its statutory royalty rate. The growth of ad-supported and subscription services alone simply hasn’t been enough to change

Just because you can (Q,10), doesn’t mean you should (Z,10)

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Academic decides that the Scrabble tile scores are all wrong and need to be balanced. Meanwhile the manufacturer points out that people have complained about that since the game was launched in the thirties, and no they won’t be changing Scrabble. Mattel has no plans to change Scrabble tiles. It is not a game where fairness is paramount, it is a game of luck and changing the tile values wouldn’t achieve anything. If only Mattel ran Facebook’s timeline design process.

Does commenting in other places break the web?

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Janne Jalkanen: …If you have a great idea that improves something I’ve written, there is no link between that comment and the idea unless you happen to be one of those few people who are my friends on Facebook and happen to glance at the stream in the brief time it’s visible. And that bugs me – you wonderful idea should be here, next to mine. On Facebook, it’s not indexable. It’s ephemeral. It’s empty. Your comments are more valuable than that. You’re breaking the web. Stop it. Please.

Mad Men Crashes To Low TV Figures – Does It Matter With Bittorrent Out There?

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Mad Men has returned to UK screens, with a heavily trailed start to Season Two on BBC4. And the results were 240,000 (ish) viewers. That holds up pretty well to the Season One premiere that caught 270,000, A drop of 9% year on year is pretty respectable. Whether the number of viewers is worth what the BBC paid for, I don’t know. But what I would love to know is how many people in the UK have caught Mad Men via ‘the dark corners of the internet.’ That’s a hard number to calculate (if only the TV industry had a