TheLongTailOfSoftware

• Bnoopy's brilliant post on TheLongTail of software : http://bnoopy.typepad.com/bnoopy/2005/03/thelongtail_o.html

: There are a huge number of processes in business (and let's add, other types of organization). A few are so self-similar that they fall into the category of the same kind of thing. For example SpreadSheets, word-processors, editors etc. Others are too individual. If they are extremely valuable, then there's a market for custom software. If not, they are likely to be handled badly by existing software. But clearly there's a lot of them. And maybe they could be handled by some sort of highly user configurable application like ... ahem ... WikiAsTheUltimateUserConfigurableApplication. Such a tool could handle the long tail (large number of rare processes) of software requirements.

** ManageAbility combines with RecombinantComputing

Comment : http://edgeperspectives.typepad.com/edgeperspectives/2005/03/longtailsand.html

• http://longtail.typepad.com/thelongtail/2005/03/thelongtail_o.html

• http://www.thelongtail.com/thelongtail/2005/09/thelongtail_o.html

• http://salesforce.breezecentral.com/longtail/

• JotWiki is from Bnoopy

DanBricklin on WikiCalc and the long tail : http://www.bricklin.com/tailwagsdog.htm

The long tail of software meets LuxurySector : on http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/archives/001441.html on the HughTrain

See also :

• SmallTools

• NoSilverBullet (and the discussion of SpreadSheets and democratization of PCs)