<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The relation between the Network Effect and the Social Web is one of the main themes of my presentation "Philosophy and the Social Web" available with audio in a number of formats here<div><a href="http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/">http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/</a></div><div><br></div><div>for pdf only I recommend</div><div><a href="http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/PhiloWeb-small-keynote.pdf">http://bblfish.net/tmp/2010/10/26/PhiloWeb-small-keynote.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>The network effect of a global distributed social web is of course much much bigger than any, even the biggest currently existing webs, due to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed's_law">Reed's Law</a> . So it's just a question of getting going and working in an open way.</div><div><br></div><div>The most difficult is psychological (for some): not to want to own it.</div><div><br></div><meta charset="utf-8"><meta charset="utf-8"><div><div><br><div><div>On 20 Mar 2011, at 22:44, Boaz wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">One of our most vicious enemies in the beginning will of course be this thing called network effect, which I'll define as that property of both communication protocols and walled-garden style communication services wherein its value to an individual prospective user is increased the more people already use it and decreased the less people already use it.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></blockquote></div><br><div>
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