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Tag Jungle presents at Launch: Silicon Valley Venture Showcase
Tag Jungle has scored a big win in the visibility wars before it's even launched. The Tag Team has been pushing hard to go live with the site while Phil has been scrounging around trying to keep everyone fed.
The Tag Team announced tonight that Tag Jungle has been invited as one of only 30 tech startups to present at Launch: Silicon Valley Venture Showcase. This is a big win for the wonderbread boys.
Tag Jungle will be showcasing their solution to make sense of the blogosphere. With a bazillion blogs up and running and Google and Technorati hitched to a linear search strategy of back links and keywords, there's room for a better solution. Tag Jungle thinks they're it.
I've seen it. They might be.
Tag Jungle uses some novel approaches to make sense of the millions of blog posts and sorts them using recognition patterns developed at BYU. (Help me out here if I get off base here Phil.) This new context recognition ability allows Tag Jungle to determine what the salient points of the post are and what the post is about without the keyword cha-cha. It also determines what other relevant tags might be of interest to the user and displays them as a tag cloud along the right. I've seen this in action and it is mucho impressive. The user can use filters to target the information they're interested in including a cool 'sentiment' filter. (I'll let Phil describe that.) The relevance of the search results promises to be an order of magnitude over what's available.
If you're blogging and don't have any hardwill towards the Tag Jungle Tarzan Team (ie. If they don't owe you money.) throw them a bone and link to their site. You'll also want to jump on as a new user and try out the cool little gizmos they've built in.
Jeff Barson
in Local Search & Markets, Internet Companies, Startups
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Local Search & The Scarcity Shortage
"Scarcity, after all, is the cornerstone of our economy. The only way to make a profit is by trading in something that's scarce. This is why the music and movie industries are so terrified by the millions of people who download entertainment from the Internet every day. Downloading threatens to make supply virtually unlimited, and that could make their offerings about as valuable as those of some kids down my street who recently tried to run a stand selling freshly made mud."
Jeff Barson
in About Nimble, Business Models, Local Search & Markets
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Niches more profitable than hits?
I posted about Nimbles Long Tail here.
I've been reading a lot about the Long Tail and came across this post describing how niche markets are actually more profitable than hits. From the LT Blog:
This Long Tail stuff is killer.
Jeff Barson
in The Long Tail, B2B, B2C, Business Models, Local Search & Markets
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