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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