- From: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 00:17:48 +0100
- To: Henry Story <henry.story@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
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. Of course, this would have to be balanced by privacy concerns, and one can imagine genuine privacy on the Social Web would reduce information liquidity...but in other regards, a decentralized network that let people chose to open their data would rapidly increase information liquidity of certain kinds. There has been some economic work in the area - Yochai Benkler comes to mind - but to my knowledge, nothing addressing distributed social networks per se. > > Henry >
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