Google vs Overture, in a nutshell

I’m at Etech, listening to Tim O’Reilly talking about “The Long Tail” and he says

A good example of products taking advantage of the long tail are Google AdSense or Overture… uh… [moves on]… They show how ….

hahahhahahhahaha!

A brilliant telling example of how we failed with ContentMatch way back in 2002 (or thereabouts)

L’Ennui

A French collegue handed out these chocolates wrapped in paper with pithy french statements on them, like fortune cookies. Mine said “L’ennui naquit un jour de l’uniformité”, which means (i think) “Ennui was born from Uniformity”.

Talk about your apropos fortunes….