Owen Densmore wrote: > Its all about beyond Metcalf's value of the network being n^2, > bringing in the power set of subgroups networks can form, thus > valuing the network as 2^n. > A person is really supposed to participate in 2^(N-1) groups? Where N is some number bigger than 4? With human short term memory only being 7 +/- 2 items?
> Stephen has the insight that Reed's Law is quite important and > explains the web 2.0 explosion and a will be a/the major component of > a web 3.0 future. > Could someone please tell me any body of source code that is representative of Web 2.0, and comparable in engineering depth to a web browser? We still have no web standard with ubiquitous cross-platform support for mobile code and no public standard and popular cross-platform infrastructure for multimedia. What exists is third party stuff like Flash and platform specific interfaces from dominant vendors like Microsoft. Could we maybe have a Web 1.1 or Web 1.5 first? Pretty please? Marcus ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
