Related to Metcalfe's law:Reed's law "The value of a network increases exponentially with the number of nodes," coined by Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3Com Corporation and major designer of Ethernet. A network becomes more useful as more users are connected. A primary example is the Internet. ...
Moore’s Law to the Rescue What Moore’s Law does is step up and help companies afford to scale. As we covered, consumers get better technology for less cost since the infrastructure doubles every two years. In the example of Craig’s List, we see that the cost to host and serve up ...
We illustrate, by way of example, that Bitcoin’s long-term price is non-random and can be modeled as a function of the logistic growth of number of users n over time. Using observed data for both Facebook and Bitcoin, we derive the relationships between price, number of users, and tim...
A network's value increases exponentially with its size, meaning that the more people are using it, the more their participation enhances the network. This is generally a very good thing, but not always. Metcalfe's Law, it turns out, has a dark side when it comes to workplace productivity...
The law has often been illustrated using the example of fax machines: a single fax machine is useless, but the value of every fax machine increases with the total number of fax machines in the network, because the total number of people with whom each user may send and receive documents ...
B2e’s main attraction, for me, was that it was a nice example of dynamically generated blog software. For small sites I think dynamically generated pages are viable, you only make gains from statically generating your pages when you scale up to big multi-server sites likeBBC News, which is...