RE: size and network value

The problem is size says very little about the production possibility
frontier.  The vagueness of social network as a classifier doesn't give many
clues to the production couplers (eg, tradeoffs in resource consumers) or
opportunity costs (tradeoffs in resources expended).  You know the size of
the address space (similar to length metrics in complexity) but not the
actual costs to address any given node (opportunity costs).

So I'm not sure what a size comparison buys you without a frame for values.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Story [mailto:henry.story@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 10:56 AM
To: Len Bullard
Cc: Harry Halpin; public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Subject: Re: size and network value


On 1 Jul 2010, at 17:52, Len Bullard wrote:

> One could say a value of a social network is it rationalizes (classical
> economics) irrational actors (behavioral economics).  That is the nature
of
> a social network as a social game, even a weakly coupled game.

The first aim should not so much be to find the absolute value of SN, but
the difference
in potential between a different sizes of SN. 

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