Jan 16, 2007
The Long Tail
Previous event, April 2006
Erik Larsson, Vice President of Marketing at Netcentrex, talks about the concept of the "Long Tail" and gives us the short tale of how new technology will shift away from a focus on a small number of mainstream "hits" at the head of the demand curve (80/20) rule and towards a huge number of niches in the tail of the curve.
Download the podcast (37MB, 1h18).
"The Long Tail", first coined by Chris Anderson in Wired Magazine in October 2004:
Wikipedia entry
Original Wired article
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Jan 15, 2007
Outsourcing and Off-shoring
Previous event, April 2005
Rebecca Scholl, director of marketing strategy at ACS Computing.
Download the podcast (71MB).
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Jan 14, 2007
Social Networking and the business model behind "free" internet services
Previous event, September 2006
Alain Lefebvre, founder of 6nergies.net, similar, but different, to e.g. LinkedIn, Viaduc, etc.
Download the podcast (40MB, 1h24).
View the photo gallery
Alain Lefebvre's blog
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Jan 13, 2007
Blogging with Loic Le Meur and Jacques Froissant
Previous event, June 2005
Loic Le Meur of Six Apart and Jacques Froissant of Altaide, two blogging precursors, came and talked about, yes, blogging.
Download the podcast, part 1
Download the podcast, part 2
Download the podcast, part 3
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Jan 05, 2007
Text-to-Speech, ReadSpeaker with Roy Lindemann
The Lunch at the Circle event in November featured Roy Lindemann from ReadSpeaker.
Roy’s area of text-to-speech (TTS) belongs to an entirely new generation of internet applications. Simply put, today you can take any web site with text, enable it with TTS, transform it into an internet radio channel, podcast or give it any other voice functions ...
Download the podcast here (32MB, 1h10)
Link to ReadSpeaker: http://www.readspeaker.com/
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Long lost friends
Perhaps not so long and not so lost, but all the same. Susan Lucas-Conwell was (even though she might not know it) one of the "spiritual inspirers" of Lunch at the Circle. I happend to find this video interview with her where she talks about her current role as Executive Director of SDForum, a Silicon Valley networking and educational organisation.
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