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Looking through the wrong end of the wire
There’s a fascinating — and entertainingly pissy, if sometimes obtuse — argument going on over Metcalfe’s Law (which states that the value of a communications network grows exponentially as its number of users grows).
VCMike’s Blog » Guest Blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks
Metcalfe’s original insight was that the value of a communications network grows (exponentially, as it turns out) as the number of users grows.
10 definitions of Web 2.0 and their shortcomings
I have come to avoid talking about this stuff with people. The first question anyone asks me is “what is Web 2.0?” Unfortunately for the ensuing conversation, it’s a little tricky to provide a straight answer. Every time you find a neat expression f
- The first question anyone asks me is “what is Web 2.0?” Every time you find a neat expression for summing the whole Web 2.0 thing up, I immediately think of an exception, or three, or ways that the definition doesn’t really get us anywhere. - nianox on 2006-08-17
The two-minute tail
The internet makes it possible for retailers to increase their available stock almost indefinitely. For example, Amazon stocks 3.7mn titles whereas the largest traditional book stores keep 100,000. The same proportions are true for iTunes, netflix, Rhapso
Web 2.0 hype cycle
Research company Gartner has given a cautious thumbs up to a host of Web 2.0 technologies including AJAX, Social Network Analysis and Location Based Services in a press release published on 9/7/06. Interestingly, it also believes that the use collective i
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