In a conversation related to my previous postings on power laws, a question came up: If a ranked distribution follows a power law, what percentage of the total is in the highest ranked bin? So for the example of a histogram of users ranked by the % of taggings, what percentage M of all taggings [...]
In my last post, I talked about how as a technology platform, Web 2.0 isn’t that much different than Web 1.0; really, going from 1.0 to 2.0 is more of a marketing indicator that significant new value is being created on top of this platform. But there are some other aspects to what people mean [...]
Fred Wilson says that the definition of “Web 2.0″ has become so hyped up that it’s borderline worthless as a term, but that he likes the early definition “the web as a platform.” I don’t disagree with this as a technical description of why the web is such a powerful enabler; but the thing is, [...]