the long tail

Sergey Brin and the miraculous power of scale

surfing around I came to this nice video, back a few years Sergey Brin admits he did not believe Wikipedia would work, but he was wrong! the miraculous power of scale – „Sure, the experts say only 1% of Wikipedia’s users actually contribute to making it better. Indeed, if you do the math, it’s even worse than that: probably closer to 0.01% (today, Wikipedia has 75,000 active contributors out of 684 million visitors). But that 0.01% have created 10 million articles. “

The lesson is that more is different.

the whole article and video – here