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Understanding the Network Effect (...more)
Time for a proper post on Network Effects. A network effect occurs when the value of a good or service to a potential customer is dependent on the number of customers already owning that good or using that service. Equivalently,...
September 25, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Chapter Two: a messy tangle of relationships at CERN (...more)Chapter two might seem detail-oriented and circumstantial, but it is necessary to describe those challenges we spoke of in the last post, and to suggest a means to overcome them. Research on this scale was so expensive that it had...
September 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack
Weaving the Web - Chapter 1 (...more)Weaving the Web (WTW) is a rare book written by a rare individual. To grasp what you're reading, the story of the Web's invention, the describing of the Web's essence and potential by its creator, you might have to change...
September 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Privacy, Security, Freedom, & Big Brother (...more)In chapter 11 of WTW, TBL takes up several issues of privacy online. Here is a classic case of the ever present need for balancing the two-sided coin of freedom and control. Nothing but full publicity and total anonymity, too...
November 4, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
TBL on Social Issues (WTW ch. 10) (...more)Though he's alluded to many important implications of the Web throughout the book, TBL waits until Chapter 10 to begin a direct treatise on its important social implications. And though he's writing in 1999, the concerns he has remain, to...
October 28, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Ch 6,7,8 Progress is made (...more)Chapter 6: TBL places the Web in the Public Domain and makes the web a truly open universal information space. Anyone who says that a commons kills incentive to innovate now has the Web's example to reckon with. Chapter 7:...
October 14, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Web's Network Effect (...more)The early phases of the Web tell an interesting story of coordination and growth. The design principles of the Web conceived of an open universal information space but it was only through hardwork and a careful balancing of freedom and...
October 7, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Chapter Two: a messy tangle of relationships at CERN (...more)Chapter two might seem detail-oriented and circumstantial, but it is necessary to describe those challenges we spoke of in the last post, and to suggest a means to overcome them. Research on this scale was so expensive that it had...
September 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Weaving the Web: Forward, Chapter 1 (...more)Weaving the Web (WTW) is a rare book written by a rare individual. To grasp what you're reading, the story of the Web's invention, the describing of the Web's essence and potential by its creator, you might have to change...
September 23, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
The Mind Analogy (...more)You may have heard the term collective consiousonous. It is tempting to make a comparison between the internetworking of minds and machines and the wiring of our own brains. Computers, it could be said, provide the brain and cortex, the...
February 3, 2004 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
