Metcalfe’s Law Wrong??
My partner Bob Metcalfe is not going to like this very much, but there is a recent post out there by some IEEE types suggesting the value of a communications network is not proportional to the square of the number of its users, but rather is best represented by the equation n log(n) (where n is the number of users on the network).
Heck, even if is a tad off, how many of us can say we had a law named after us?
There must be something in the water. I just read a thoughtful post on the application of Metcalfe’s Law to social networks (http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/07/network-effect-multiplier-or-metcalfes.html). A worthwhile read.
[...] The blogosphere has started bubbling some interesting discussion of how Metcalfe’s Law applies to current Web 2.0 dynamics like social networking. Some IEEE types, Brad Feld, Niel Robertson, a PhD. student named Fred Stutzman, my partner Sim Simeonov, myself and a few others have posted on this in the last few weeks. [...]
VCMike’s Blog » Guest Blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks said this on August 18, 2006 at 12:02 am |
[...] The blogosphere has started bubbling some interesting discussion of how Metcalfe’s Law applies to current Web 2.0 dynamics like social networking. Some IEEE types, Brad Feld, Niel Robertson, a PhD. student named Fred Stutzman, my partner Sim Simeonov, myself and a few others have posted on this in the last few weeks. [...]
At least I tried… dot com » Blog Archive » Guest Blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks said this on August 25, 2006 at 4:27 am |
La loi de Metcalfe et le Web 2.0
Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of users of the system (n2). First formulated by Robert Metcalfe in regard to Ethernet, Metcalfe’s law explains many of the network effe…
Anti Patterns said this on December 30, 2006 at 7:00 am |