The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090
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The Evaporative Cooling Effect in Social Network : Networks Course blog for INFO 2040/CS 2850/Econ 2040/SOC 2090
A social network like Path attempted to limit your social graph size to the Dunbar number, capping your social capital accumulation potential and capping the distribution of your posts. The exchange, they hoped, was some greater transparency, more genuine self-expression. The anti-Facebook. Unfortunately, as social capital theory might predict, Pat... See more
Eugene Wei • Status as a Service
Although this entire phenomenon is often called market saturation, in a networked product there’s actually something more subtle going on. I think of it as network saturation, not just market saturation. Here’s how I define this term: the 100th connection for any given participant is likely less impactful than the first few, and as the network gets
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First, I start with the principal dilemma, which I call “Anti-Network Effects.” It’s a myth that network effects are all powerful and positive forces—quite the opposite. Small, sub-scale networks naturally want to self-destruct, because when people show up to a product and none of their friends or coworkers are using it, they will naturally leave.
Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
