Metcalfe’s law says that “the value of a network increases proportionately with the square of the number of its users”. This law works for Internet, social networking, the www and any other type of network like that. The idea is to be able to give a value to the network. Metc[...]
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November 18th, 2008 - 9:38 pm § in Uncategorized
Predictions for 2008 – were they right?
The eLearn magazine from the ACM published an article where they had asked a number of scientists what they predicted in technology for 2008. This is focused on e-education but it’s good to see some of these predictions anyway as they concern us all really. This was in January, and seeing th[...]
October 7th, 2008 - 1:04 am § in Uncategorized
Hakia’s new stuff
Hakia, the semantic search engine, has launched a few new features. A bit of info about Hakia if you missed the launch etc… It works by retrieving information by matching concepts and meanings. They have their own algorithm for ranking called “SemanticRank”. It can categorise[...]
October 3rd, 2008 - 1:05 am § in Uncategorized
Nexplore search engine
The Nexplore search engine has been released in beta. It’s fast, it’s busy, it’s fun and it’s pretty accurate. You can search the web, news, video, images, blogs and podcasts. It’s clearly aimed at social networking, it’s all very web 2.0. They say: “Ou[...]
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September 26th, 2008 - 1:25 am § in Uncategorized
3 degrees of seperation
Cow’s blog brought my attention to this bit of research from O2. They say that (within a shared ‘interest’ network) there are no longer 6 degrees of separation but now only 3, due to the rise in telecommunication and social networking. They say email and mobile phones had the most sig[...]
