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Metcalfe's Law is Wrong
- pius 19y agoToo bad Spectrum articles don't have abstracts.
- hussong 19y agoExcellent article, though the headline looked a bit flamebaity at first. The author's main point: the growth of a network's value can be better approximated by n log(n) than by Metcalfe's n²-n. Looking at online communities and social networks, I would even go so far as to say that their value function looks more like a bell curve (taking into account negative factors like spam, scoundrels and stupidity). Anybody still on Usenet?