Metcalfe's law
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- Kill Your Gods … Another one, the one I’m going to lay into, is Metcalfe’s law. Metcalfe’s law is this: Metcalfe's law states that the financial value or …
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- Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; Streaks Broken; Aigg on your Face, Big Disgrace … You can handwave Metcalfe's law and say, of course the utility of the network is greater on startup if it already has the requisite number of nodes …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … Another thought I have builds on the suspicion/verging sometimes on contempt of Metcalfe's law, that the value of a network increases proportional to the square of …
- At Any Cost … axioms of "doing things on the internet" like fervent, unquestioned belief in Metcalfe's Law[4] about the value in comms networks leading to, well, not so great …
- Division by Infinity … on this later) * belief in the undeniable positive power of the network: Metcalfe's law as, uh, stated by Wikipedia, isn't about the *number* of unique connections …
- OVERNIGHT SUCCESS … your target audience due to market forces, globalization, Moore's law and Metcalfe's law Wait a bit longer for someone to make those smartphones actually usable Invent …
- First Rule In Government Spending … Better things that work fix that. [0] AgileBits Blog | Curing Our Slack Addiction [1] Metcalfe's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [2] We Don’t Sell Saddles Here …
- What The Network Does; How Do You Solve A Problem Like TED; Not A Career, A Careen … Fulfill your part of Metcalfe's Law. Only at the beginning was the law stuff *absolutely nothing* to do with the network. Everything after that was: what am …
- Better Days … towards "bits, not atoms (near-zero incremental cost), towards anything that leverages Metcalfe's Law, towards dark patterns of nonconsensual behaviour towards users (like strip-mining Contacts lists …
- I'm a Barista; More "Valley"; More Uber; They Create Jobs, Don't They?; Dumb Telcos … things like "the transistor" and "ethernet" and "wifi" and then concepts like "Metcalfe's law" and then not-laws like "let's try really hard to double the …