On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:22 PM, Mark Adam <[email protected]>wrote:
> As "small worlds" theory has shown you only need a small amount of trusted > connections (say a dozen) and as long as everyone else has about the same > you'll have a million of trusted peers crowdsourced for you. The real > question one should ask is how to create an interesting enough system that > everyone joins and forms the peers? > > :::The problem isn't a technical one as much as a social one. :) > Well yes: Metcalfe's law. To achieve the "network effect" there are a lot of incidental problems to be solved: making the software easy to install, making it easy to use, and making it "social" I think I have a pretty good idea of how to solve these problems... we'll see! -- Tony Arcieri
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