More on Disruptions

Another non-technical post. I was thinking through the amazing variety of industries in which web and related technologies have caused disruptive changes. There's a whole bunch of disruptions along the theme of monetizing the "long tail" --

Long Tail Disruptions
Existing Industry	Disruptive Technology	Companies
Media Advertising	Online Ad networks, exchanges	AdSense
Retail	Online Retail/Auctions	Amazon, eBay
Banking	P2P Lending through web-based apps	Lending Club
Hotels, B&B	P2P Space Sharing through web-based apps	AirBnB
Content Publishing	Self Publishing with hosted blogging platforms	Blogger, WordPress, etc.
Discounted High-End Brand Retail	Web, Social Media +Daily Deal Email	Gilt.com, Fab.com, ...
Tax Accounting	Web-based Apps	TurboTax
Financial Advice	Web-based Apps	Mint.com
Broadcast Television	Streaming Video	Netflix, Hulu

And now the IT industry itself is possibly undergoing several disruptive changes:

IT Disruptions
Middleware (DBs, AppServers, etc.)	PaaS	Amazon Web Services, Google AppEngine, Force.com, Heroku, SpringSource, CloudFoundry, Rackspace Cloud
Data Warehousing	MapReduce, Hadoop	Yahoo, Hortonworks, Cloudera, IBM, ...
Short Request Processing	NoSQL stores	DataStax, Couchbase, Grid vendors

Some of these disruptions are likely to have a small effect, and some of these are probably going to change the landscape of IT. It sure is an interesting time to be in technology!