Note, of course, that he directly defines the possible number of sub-groups in a network as its 'utility' or as in the first line of the link defining that, the 'hapiness' of the net! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Owen Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:00:12 To:The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] Reed's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Interesting to see that David Reed's Law is now in Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law> Its all about beyond Metcalf's value of the network being n^2, bringing in the power set of subgroups networks can form, thus valuing the network as 2^n. Stephen has the insight that Reed's Law is quite important and explains the web 2.0 explosion and a will be a/the major component of a web 3.0 future. Nice to see its now pretty fully on the radar. -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
