Ley de Metcalfe: Reduciendo la cola larga de las redes sociales

Guest Blogger Bob Metcalfe: Metcalfe’s Law Recurses Down the Long Tail of Social Networks 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. Bob Metcalfe, who invented the law in the first place and is my partner at Polaris (and who, along with Al Gore, invented the Internet…), offers his own view in a guest blog post below. Metcalfe’s original insight was that the value of a communications network grows (exponentially, as it turns out) as...

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Ley de Metcalfe: Más incompresión que equivocación

Metcalfe’s Law: more misunderstood than wrong? by Simeon Simeonov The industry is at it again–trying to figure out what to make of Metcalfe’s Law. This time it’s IEEE Spectrum with a controversially titled “Metcalfe’s Law is Wrong”. The main thrust of the argument is that the value of a network grows O(nlogn) as opposed to O(n2). Unfortunately, the authors’ O(nlogn) suggeston is no more accurate or insightful than the original proposal. There are three issues to consider: The difference between what Bob Metcalfe claimed and what ended up becoming Metcalfe’s Law The units of measurement What happens with large networks The typical statement of the law is “the value of a network increases proportionately with...

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Ley de Metcalfe: Demasiado optimista

Researchers: Metcalfe's Law overshoots the mark Summary: Rule that encouraged madcap expansion in the dot-com era turns out to have been, um, way too generous, scientists argue. ZDNet Two University of Minnesota researchers have written a paper arguing that Metcalfe's Law, a rule of thumb that computes the value of communication networks, is overly optimistic. Metcalfe's Law--a rule of thumb, really, that provided a rationale for aggressive expansion efforts during the dot-com boom--posits that the value of a network increases with the square of the number of devices in the network. But in a preliminary paper (click for PDF) published March 2, Andrew Odlyzko and Benjamin Tilly of the university's Digital Technology Center concluded...

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Vainio-Pekkia: La nueva educación y los emprendimientos en Finlandia

Vainio-Pekkia: EL EMPRENDIMIENTO, UNA NUEVA OLA DE APRENDIZAJE LA EXPERIENCIA DE LA TEAM ACADEMY EN FINLANDIA Publish at Calameo or read more publications...

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Todo lo que necesita saber acerca de la guerra de precios en eReaders

Everything you need to know about the great e-book price war How the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit against Apple and the Big Six book publishers will affect the business of lit BY LAURA MILLER  - SALON Jeff Bezos (Credit: AP/Reed Saxon) Closing arguments for the Department of Justice’s antitrust suit against Apple concluded last week, although U.S. District Judge Denise Cote is not expected to reach a decision for another couple of months. If you’ve found the case difficult to follow, you’re not alone. Still it’s worth getting a handle on the basics because the suit — or, more precisely, the business deals behind it — have changed book publishing in significant ways. Furthermore, Judge Cote’s decision could have impact well...

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Rodriguez: La revolución necesaria y lo que las escuelas de negocios pueden hacer por ella

Rodriguez: LA REVOLUCIÓN NECESARIA Y LO QUE LAS ESCUELAS DE NEGOCIOS PUEDEN HACER POR ELLA Publish at Calameo or read more publications...

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Koria y otros: Facilitar los ecosistemas de innovación a través de la educación superior

Koria: FACILITAR LOS ECOSISTEMAS DE INNOVACIÓN A TRAVÉS DE LA EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR Publish at Calameo or read more publications...

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Nueva estrategia de precios para aplicaciones parece ir bien

New pricing strategy for apps going strong Developers around the world adopt pricing model 'Fans in charge' Pricing experiment app SnelTrein still ongoing. App developers worldwide start adopting new pricing strategy. http://pressdoc.com/p/00141u On June 27th a Dutch app developer launched a radical new pricing strategy for apps. They call the pricing model 'Fans in charge'. Free for anyone to adopt. Innovatio claims to be on a mission to heal the global app economy. A bit ambitious and crazy, but worth the risk. In a nutshell it comes down to this: An app gets more expensive everyday until a day comes by where the app is sold zero times. When that moment arrives, fans & early adopters get to decide on the final price tag...

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