It is certailny a great book, however, in my opinion, there’s still an important difference between two main kinds of decentralized organizations that should be defined in a more accurate way: structures like Wikipedia have a clear, well defined and global goal (for example, creating a unique and complete world-wide encyclopedia), while almost any P2P […]
A Web 2.0 “Sociological” point of view is probably the most interesting analysis, mainly because it can be really considered as the very network revolution. Web 1.0 could rely only on a kind of link: the one obtained from <a …> tags; its purpose was (and still it is) to allow the connection between […]
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee had his stroke of genius and invented the World Wide Web, he didn’t surely think about its extraordinaty present developments, just like a father normally hopes his children’s wellbeing, but he can’t seldom figure out every particular detail of their future. Such a behaviour strikes everybody as a strange kind of […]
Many years ago Arnold Zuboff wrote a novel (republished into The Mind’s I) which “main character” was a biological brain; but not a normal, compact one:
it had been split more and more times, from two big parts since billions of smaller cells. Of course every single neuron was connected to other ones just like in […]
It has been proved that social networks are based on a scale-free model: there are few hubs with lots of connections and several small nodes with few links. However I wonder what is the level of global connectivity inside a well-known network like LinkedIn.
In other words I’d like to know if there are small or […]
Reference Post: Connection Categories
I think that a clarification could be useful… I believe that in particular networks (just like the Internet), the requirements of usability and accessibility oblige every big node (hub) to assume an adaptive behavior which main feature is to hide the majority of possible links in order to show only a limited […]
Taking a sharper look to different networks, it’s possible to notice a particular feature which is often bound with the concept of “Fluid Hubs” : there are few real and permanent connections between two or more nodes.
Of course the simplest example is provided by our daily experience with the Internet: we know that the majority […]
I’m rereading some chapters from various Jeremy Rifkin’s books (in particular “The Age of Access”) and the first thought which came to my mind was about the accent on the potential loss of culture that network society could raise.
A particular emphasis is placed on the difference between economical transactions and cultural events: in an industrial […]
The main feature of scale-free network is the presence of hubs, that are nodes with two peculiarities:
The number of hubs is much smaller than other nodes one, according to a power-law distribution.
The number of links per hub is much greater than normal nodes one.
The Internet is the clearest example of such a network, however in […]
I’m reading it now and my (superficial) opinion is firmly positive. Maybe the only aspect which leaves me a bit buffled is the big number of statistics data positioned inside almost every paragraph… A very small spot in a great context signed by Manuel Castells.
In this very period new concepts like social networking are becoming […]