Summer 2005, Must be the Season of the Niche

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Gretzky NHL 2005 set to drop -- and no
season

Gretzky NHL 2005 set to drop -- and no
season 09/17/2004 12:35 PM
National Post Sep 17 2004 4:11PM GMT

Speedline Technologies to Showcase
Leading Industry Solutions at Nepcon
Thailand 2005, with Niche Tech (2004)
Co. Ltd.

Speedline Technologies to Showcase
Leading Industry Solutions at Nepcon
Thailand 2005, with Niche Tech (2004)
Co. Ltd. 06/05/2005 11:15 PM
Speedline Technologies, the global leader for single-source process knowledge, solutions, and service to the PCB assembly and semiconductor packaging industries, will showcase the industry’s leading solutions and technologies at Nepcon Thailand 2005, Booth No. 4D29, Bangkok, 16-19 June 2005. [PRWEB May 23, 2005]

Summer movies 2005

Summer movies 2005 06/05/2005 11:47 PM

Reader peter vanDerbeek has gone above and beyond the call of duty, producing a 2005 summer movie calendar (in iCal format) from the entire NY Times listing with details about each film, and links to the full NY Times review and movie trailer on apple.com (if available). If you're a movie fan and have calendaring software that supports the iCal format, this is a great resource. If your calendar can't import iCal files, you can still view this calendar on the web in HTML format. Thanks, peter!

Summer 2005 Vaio Notebooks

Summer 2005 Vaio Notebooks 04/12/2005 11:31 AM

Apart from the new Vaio type H desktop we just told you about, Sony announced new Vaio type A, S, and F notebooks. The type A series now includes FeliCa contactless IC support, and adds a model with a 15.4" screen to the lineup. Vaio type S is renewed with better specifications such as a Pentium M 750, 512MB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, and GeForce Go 6200. Finally, the type Fs contain a range of specification improvements across all models, but of note would be the new "TV Port Replicator," an optional MPEG-2 hardware encoder board available for about 30,000 yen. Sadly, it seems Sony has omitted FeliCa support in the type S and F notebooks.

Press Release [Sony]

New Motorola Smartphone With Keyboard
Due Out Summer 2005

New Motorola Smartphone With Keyboard
Due Out Summer 2005 02/05/2005 09:10 PM
Smartphone Thoughts Feb 2 2005 4:08PM GMT

Broadband: BT plans to extend coverage
to 99.4% of homes by summer 2005

Broadband: BT plans to extend coverage
to 99.4% of homes by summer 2005 08/20/2004 02:31 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 20 2004 7:21AM GMT

She-Tech.com Combines Handbag
Sophistication with Form and Function in
its New Line of Women’s Laptop Cases for
Spring/Summer 2005

She-Tech.com Combines Handbag
Sophistication with Form and Function in
its New Line of Women’s Laptop Cases for
Spring/Summer 2005 04/11/2005 03:45 AM
Handbag sophistication meets form and function in She-Tech.com’s new line of women’s laptop cases for Spring/Summer 2005. Building upon the success of their debut line, She-Tech.com, an Atlanta-based designer and online retailer of laptop cases for women, once again bridges style, fashion, and function; this time by combining handbag craftsmanship with bold and bright textiles. [PRWEB Apr 11, 2005]

CompAmerica Announces 20% off all PCs,
Laptops, Servers, Software and Services
at its new PC-Giants.com
Business-to-Business Computer Shopping
Portal for the Summer of 2005

CompAmerica Announces 20% off all PCs,
Laptops, Servers, Software and Services
at its new PC-Giants.com
Business-to-Business Computer Shopping
Portal for the Summer of 2005 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
CompAmerica indicated that its ultra-sophisticated new electronic computer products and parts-buying store/portal, could save anyone as much as 37% off the usual store pricing on products from 500 brand names, many of which aren’t available at stores like CompUSA, PC Warehouse, other online stores, or Radio Shack. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

Flu Season! Wabbit Season!

Flu Season! Wabbit Season! 12/02/2003 01:03 AM
Everybody in southern California seems to be falling ill, so I'm sure it won't be too long before I'm KO'ed as well. Perhaps if I keep enough green "liquid death" (read: NyQuil) coursing through my veins, the bugs will remain at bay? Taste is the first thing to go when I get sick - which would explain my sense of humor as of late. I've moved my home office mini-television into the bedroom in preparation for the inevitable. Even if I don't become the next witless victim, I'll be able to fall asleep to Drew Carey reruns and wake up to Battlestar Girlactica promos. With red hot Wi-Fi, I'm also able to stay connected while under the covers. Adventure Elf, here I come!...

Niche out!

Niche out! 03/22/2005 03:24 PM
Doc's right.  People that buy or sell on the long tail shouldn't be considered consumers.  To prove a point, the long tail members I describe aren't passive, rather, they are in the driver's seat of the new distribution.  States and their passive consumers (of political goods) are the ones at risk.

Identifying your Niche

Identifying your Niche 05/03/2004 07:21 PM
WebDevInfo May 3 2004 10:45PM GMT

Losing a Niche

Losing a Niche 06/17/2005 07:16 PM

Popular Science magazine gives us the following five things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with RSS:

1. “Package Deliveries
2. Library Books
   “ Avoid late fees and fruitless trips to the library with ELF (libraryelf.com), which generates a feed to inform you when books you've requested are available at your local branch (including a link to operating hours) and when your checked-out books are almost due.”
3. Local Weather
4. TV Listings
5. Yourself” [via del.icio.us/merlinmann/ 43folders]

I love the ELF and even subscribe to the service myself, but how does it make your privacy-loving, patron-protecting, librarian self feel that a company in Canada is providing this service that gets highlighted in PopSci instead of you?

Voice Over Wi-Fi a Niche App

Voice Over Wi-Fi a Niche App 11/11/2003 03:11 PM
A There is a lot of talk and some confusion around the value of voice over Wi-Fi: It will take some time for the market to figure out how extensively it should be used. I think voice over Wi-Fi can be really useful to certain workers, but the current products have so many shortcomings that a company must have enough of those workers and be able to benefit enough to suffer through the headaches. Voice over Wi-Fi will become a routine service only if the products improve significantly....

XML-Deviant: XQuery's Niche

XML-Deviant: XQuery's Niche 12/29/2004 08:49 PM
XQuery has been much hyped, but is it sufficiently different from XSLT to be successful? Edd Dumbill follows a debate looking for XQuery's niche.

Another Niche Filled in Libraryland

Another Niche Filled in Libraryland 12/02/2003 01:27 AM

And speaking of library-related blogs, N ew Library Career Blog Available!

"Sarah and Rachel writes 'Sarah and Rachel (the Library Job People) announce the creation of a brand new site, Beyond the Job, a career development blog for information professionals. Find calls for contributors, job search advice, articles on the profession, scholarships and grants, conference info, and more! Got ideas to submit? Send them in. RSS feed available for all those aggregator folks out there. Thanks to Steven of Library Stuff for suggesting such a thing in one of his recent posts.' " [LISNews.com]

Niche Publishing - Engadget

Niche Publishing - Engadget 03/06/2004 01:59 AM

Niche publishing really isn't just for Nick Denton anymore... Peter Rojas, the original blogger behind Gizmodo has broken out of that gig to start Engadget... a competitor to Gizmodo.

Denton still has a leg up (first mover advantage we used to call it) on individuals launching one or two focused sites on their own, as he can aggregate his entire Gawker media property audiences if he wants to for an advertiser, or he can sell the advertising piecemeal... but, folks like Rojas can probably make enough money off their sites short-term to support themselves, and long term to build a living that they enjoy.

Best of luck Peter...

Ultra-niche marketing

Ultra-niche marketing 12/24/2004 01:06 PM
TrackCap.com trackpoint.com sells nothing but the nibs, nubbins, caps or whatever you call them for the IBM ThinkPad Trackpoint - you know, the little sticky-uppy thing between the G and H on Thinkpads. $10 for 2, so maybe they're doing ok, especially since you can get 6 for $10 from IBM. (Shipping is free at both places.) Trackpoint.com also sell screws for the IBM Ultrabay at a buck each, so apparently they're branching out. Radical....

Standing in the Niche, Trying to Hold
Your Own

Standing in the Niche, Trying to Hold
Your Own 04/14/2004 10:28 PM
Although the prospect of battling Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Gateway might intimidate some boutique computer makers, Velocity Micro says it welcomes the challenge.

Social reading -- A niche to be filled?

Social reading -- A niche to be filled? 09/11/2004 08:54 AM
There's a niche in the blogging/media ecosystem I hope someone fills. Aggregators are wonderful, but I find using them makes me as lonely as a night watchman making his rounds. So, between the solipsism of aggregators and the impersonalism of mainstream newspapers, I'd like a site where my friends and I can read stuff together. We suggest blogs and sites, and the aggregator surfaces the hot posts based on clever metrics and heuristics (mumble mumble handwaving). And we get to comment and annotate for one another. That last point is important because I find that I often don't leave comments...

Morse buys niche consultancy biz

Morse buys niche consultancy biz 04/21/2004 06:18 AM
'De-risking projects'

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status

Rescuing XSLT from Niche Status 10/30/2002 12:50 AM
XSLT is one of the most exciting technologies to come out of the XML family. Unfortunately, its incredible power and associated complexity can be overwhelming to new users preventing many from experimenting with it or causing them to quickly give up in disgust. In fact, unless the method of teaching and the common style of use for XSLT is radically changed to make it more accessible, XSLT will be relegated to niche status like SGML and other powerful technologies. -- David Jacobs

"zeldman.543jh"

21 Hot Niche Minisite Profit Ideas

21 Hot Niche Minisite Profit Ideas 05/12/2004 05:18 PM
WebDevInfo May 12 2004 8:18PM GMT

Making Microsoft a niche player

Making Microsoft a niche player 08/30/2004 06:46 AM
Novell engineer and manager Allison Singh recently predicted in an Africa-based tectonic magazine article that Windows will become a niche operating system, replaced by Linux as the new standard. A gestalt of recent trends, events, and stories should tell you that this prediction is right on the money. A gestalt, by the way, is a perception or conclusion that goes beyond the sum of its parts. Here are three of the many parts that comprise the gestalt.

Niche internet retailers hit their
stride

Niche internet retailers hit their
stride 02/16/2004 08:12 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Feb 17 2004 0:06AM GMT

EBay Spawns Niche Market

EBay Spawns Niche Market 03/19/2005 03:09 AM
Who says that innovation off the Web is dead? It turns out that eBay has given birth to a neat little niche market that allows people to drop off their stuff to a brick and mortar environment. OK, the idea is sound for now. But is it anywhere near as recession proof as eBay itself?…

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Comdex to focus on corporate niche

Comdex to focus on corporate niche 10/30/2003 11:47 PM
ZDNet Oct 27 2003 10:07AM ET

Search sites itch for a niche

Search sites itch for a niche 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
Yahoo and Google up the ante in search, offering new search tricks for Web surfers, with the ongoing goal of becoming indispensable.

Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative
Niche

Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative
Niche 06/04/2004 01:58 PM

Handhelds carve a niche in India Inc

Handhelds carve a niche in India Inc 04/11/2005 03:51 AM
ZDNet India Apr 11 2005 7:30AM GMT

niche appeal of the bl0gging business

niche appeal of the bl0gging business 01/06/2005 02:39 PM
Financial Times on Blog Advertising .. another article about blog ads .. weblogs as businesses

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track this site | 4 links

Sub-niche bl0g of note:
peoplefallingover.com

Sub-niche bl0g of note:
peoplefallingover.com 06/07/2004 03:51 PM
Peoplefallingover.com has entries about people who involuntarily rotate about their Z-axis. For example, wat ch what happens to this man who insists on applying a red-hot branding iron to a horse's hind leg. Link

Amazon expands into more niche markets
(USATODAY.com)

Amazon expands into more niche markets
(USATODAY.com) 04/19/2005 06:59 AM
USATODAY.com - Online retailer Amazon.com continues to expand into niche markets, even as some investors grow impatient with its strategy of growth fueled by anemic profit margins.

Luck or skill? A niche for Web gaming
firms

Luck or skill? A niche for Web gaming
firms 05/24/2004 06:40 PM
International Herald Tribune,France-16 minutes ago ... Under pressure from the US Justice Department, Yahoo, Google and MSN last month stopped accepting advertisements from online casino operators because such ads ...

Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative
Niche (Reuters)

Gaming PC Makers Take Aim at Lucrative
Niche (Reuters) 06/04/2004 03:48 AM
Reuters - In an age when a new PC can cost just a few hundred dollars, an adolescent need for speed is creating a profitable niche for souped-up gaming computers at the ultra-costly end of the market.

New Site Catalogues Hundreds of Niche
Directories

New Site Catalogues Hundreds of Niche
Directories 04/19/2005 11:19 AM
The new IncomingLinks.com Directory of Directories catalogues over 500 niche directories that publicly state their willingness to receive new link submissions from relevant sites. The site catalogues each directory by theme, and gives information on the most appropriate way to submit a link request.

HSCareers.com is the most visited US
niche employment site

HSCareers.com is the most visited US
niche employment site 02/20/2003 08:41 AM
Alexa.com, owned by Amazon.com and powered by Google.com, provides the average ranking of websites based on the number of visitors to a particular website over ...

IBM Finds SMB Niche with Color Laser
Printer

IBM Finds SMB Niche with Color Laser
Printer 06/14/2004 09:13 PM
IBM this week will ship the Infoprint Color 1334 laser printer, designed for small and midsize businesses and small workgroups.

Japanese niche porn: cockroach fetish

Japanese niche porn: cockroach fetish 03/31/2005 02:31 AM
Xeni Jardin: For every fetish, there is a website and a DVD -- even this one for those enticed by the combination of cockroaches and Japanese gamines. The cover beckons: "Woman who eats cockroaches!! She is super idol of the MARS SPIRIT!!!"
link (via Fleshbot)

Chemicals multinational picks niche ERP
supplier

Chemicals multinational picks niche ERP
supplier 06/29/2004 05:58 AM
Computer Weekly Jun 29 2004 10:21AM GMT
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