- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:05:43 +0200
- To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Cc: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com> wrote: >> Just a thought following todays talk. >> >> Why not get some networg graph experts to help us work out what the value of a global >> social web would be? There is a lot of research in the field of network theory, and there >> may be some interesting insights to be had from those areas. > > I agree - you think there would be someone who can judge information > "liquidity" as Tim Anglade put it and imagine some bright economicst > could figure it out. I disagree that this is worth our attempting, at least for the report. "The value of a global social Web" is a monsterously vague item. It would be hard enough to to price something concrete like "two million laptops, configured with Ubuntu version x and wired up with XMPP accounts". If we can say what it is, we can't reasonably ask someone else to slap a price tag on it... Not that it isn't worth talking about, and I won't object to seeing mail traffic on the topic. But nobody is in a position to answer such questions really... Dan
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