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By: Doc Searls Weblog Pulling the scales from our whys | Green Tea Fat Burner

Doc Searls Weblog Pulling the scales from our whys | Green Tea Fat Burner — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:58:56 +0000

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By: ProjectVRM Blog » Blog Archive » VRM linkage and thinkage

ProjectVRM Blog » Blog Archive » VRM linkage and thinkage — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:19:15 +0000

[...] wrote in response to Noah Brier’s Metcalfe’s Plateau, to which I also responded with Pulling the scales from our whys. It was fun to find Bob Metcalfe himself (inventor of Ethernet and a fun guy) amongst the [...]

By: Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » It's mid-summer blogging time

Marc’s Voice » Blog Archive » It's mid-summer blogging time — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:28:28 +0000

[...] Metcalfe’s Law is a drag when ti comes to conversations [...]

By: Marc Canter

Marc Canter — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:21:32 +0000

Just oien thing to add here – quality over quantity

the only reason the social network vendors do what they do – is to capture more eyeballs to make more money. Trust me – they don’t give a shit about conversations.

By: Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 07/11/2008

Michael Nielsen » Biweekly links for 07/11/2008 — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 10:53:54 +0000

[...] Doc Searls Weblog · Pulling the scales from our whys [...]

By: Bob Metcalfe

Bob Metcalfe — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:40:05 +0000

Metcalfe’s Law (V ~ N^2) has been begging for revision since the 1980s. Alas, the best its critiques have thought of so far is slowing its ascent (V ~ N*Log(N)). Time to add some terms that turn it flat or even down after some point, as above. And to find some data to fit the formulas.

See Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks:

http://vcmike.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/metcalfe-social-networks

/Bob Metcalfe

By: Adriana

Adriana — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:38:35 +0000

well, we may be Reaching the limits of silos, not of networks

By: thingamy

thingamy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:39:37 +0000

Blind growth and networking technology…

Hat tip to Doc and his post where he comments and links to this, this and this – all suggesting that a network, or group, at some point of growth diminishes in value for each new participant. Appropriately termed as…

By: Don Marti

Don Marti — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:35:47 +0000

Looks like the bottom feeder advertisers that Google drove away are fleeing to Facebook. I checked in on my Facebook account and it's all dumbass "express your opinion on gas prices" and "lose weight with green tea" -- these things bring in orders of magnitude less than well-placed search ads.

By: Crosbie Fitch

Crosbie Fitch — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:53:32 +0000

Instead of a private walled garden into which members of the public are occasionally admitted where they may pay for a limited period to experience what it might be like to own such a garden and play without constraint, how about an unwalled public park of infinite size where all members of the public are free to come and go and do what they will, subject to the proviso that they play fair and don’t attempt to enclose anything. Into this park expensive works of art may sometimes be deposited, whose production has been arranged and paid for by voluntary public subscription (or on some occasions, philanthropic individuals or corporations).

Such an unwalled park would be comparable to how the GPL license operates today, or what the entire world will look like once the unethical privileges of copyright and patent have been abolished and everyone’s intellectual property rights have been restored.