{"id":842,"date":"2006-04-06T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T14:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=842"},"modified":"2006-04-13T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T17:28:19","slug":"value-in-the-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Value In The Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting entry over on <a href=\"http:\/\/earlystagevc.typepad.com\/earlystagevc\/2006\/03\/a_vast_improvem.html\" target=\"blank\">EarlyStageVC discussing Vast (Link)<\/a>. I&#8217;ve heard plenty of talk surrounding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vast.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Vast<\/a>, but had never taken the time to really grok it. This entry remedies that. Here&#8217;s some excerpts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vast.com looks like a classic classifieds site, but it is not.  It is not a data aggregator.  It is a data disseminator.  It is a hub targeted to the developer community to enable the mashup of structured data in a reusable form.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nAs a result, the data are Vast \u00e2\u20ac\u201c millions of cars, millions of jobs, and millions of profiles, with more categories of objects to come.<\/p>\n<p>This is the true long tail of listings. The user benefit is obvious &#8212; find the exceptional value.   Like the old joke &#8212; why is it always that you find something in the last place you look? &#8212; the exceptional value is always in the long tail. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLike MyPicklist (about which I posted recently &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=835\" target=\"blank\">reLink<\/a>), I see the spawns of Vast &#8211; probably mash-ups that integrate it with social software &#8211; greatly empowering those who create truly good product. I hope this provides greater opportunities for designers and raises the bar for the corporate copycats of the world.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this seems like another factor in the evolution of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=292\" target=\"blank\">ecoToroid<\/a> as the Long Tail section continues to flatten. I need to make time to animate that thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting entry over on EarlyStageVC discussing Vast (Link). I&#8217;ve heard plenty of talk surrounding Vast, but had never taken the time to really grok it. This entry remedies that. Here&#8217;s some excerpts: Vast.com looks like a classic classifieds site, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=842\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}