The relation between the Network Effect and the Social Web is one of the main themes of my presentation "Philosophy and the Social Web" available with audio in a number of formats here http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/
for pdf only I recommend http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/PhiloWeb-small-keynote.pdf The network effect of a global distributed social web is of course much much bigger than any, even the biggest currently existing webs, due to Reed's Law . So it's just a question of getting going and working in an open way. The most difficult is psychological (for some): not to want to own it. On 20 Mar 2011, at 22:44, Boaz wrote: > One of our most vicious enemies in the beginning will of course be this thing > called network effect, which I'll define as that property of both > communication protocols and walled-garden style communication services > wherein its value to an individual prospective user is increased the more > people already use it and decreased the less people already use it. Social Web Architect http://bblfish.net/
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