Professional Documents
Culture Documents
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/2789916201/
Let the data speak for itself
This is a description of a
community
Build Flexible
Applications with
Graph Data
12 Million Nodes
350 Million Links
Item #3 of
"what is web2.0"
http://www.plasticbag.org/files/native/
#2 what is
web2.0:
Harnessing
Collective
Intelligence
Network Effects
What is the story about?
community = economy
So far...
Visitors
Contributing
0.16%
0.2%
4.56%
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arancidamoeba/3421129195/
Pyramid of Contribution
Following Bradley Horowitz
Creators
Synthesizers
Consumers
http://www.flickr.com/photos/arancidamoeba/3421129195/
Methylene Blue, methylthionine chloride or 3,7-
bis(dimethylamino)phenothiazin-5-ium chloride, with a
molecular formula of C16H18ClN3S, is a dye and medication
used in Gram's stain, Wright stain, and the treatment of
metoxyhemoglobinemia.
Its CAS number is 61-73-4: its EC number is 200-515-2 .
Pyramids of Contribution Opportunities
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hllewellyn/2614771667/
RT
1 2 6 7
2 3 4 5 6
3 7
4 5
P = 0.6
after 60 steps
Coupling
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railroad_Coupling_(CMRR).jpg
The Architecture of Participation
...modular architecture that allows easy
participation by independent or loosely
coordinated developers.
- Tim O'Reilly
NK Boolean Networks
N Nodes
K Connections
As K increases, the
space of values
becomes less
predictable.
Scale
Linear Value
N
Metcalfe's Law
N 2
Group Formation Networks
2 N
Reed's Law
N
Value
N^2
2^N
N
2N
Value
N N2
N N2
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<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://freebaselibs.com/static/suggest/1.0.1/suggest.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
$("#suggestinput").suggest()
.bind("fb-select", function(e, data) {
$('#profileid').val(data.id);
});
});
</script>
http://freebase.com/docs/suggest
Using well-known
semantics connects you
to other communities:
- Open Graph Protocol
- Freebase
- HTML5 Microformats
Cumulative Advantage
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/3366720659/
Clocks didn’t
have to look
like this.
Many early
clocks were 24
hour clocks.
10,000 year clock
Conceived by Danny
Hillis, co-founder of
Metaweb
Enough people started
using this format that it
became the standard....
VHS/Betamax anyone?
Is Justin Timberlake a Product of
Cumulative Advantage?
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.html
The rich get richer
and
Connected data attracts more connections
The foundation behind: