Cushman Blog Talk 2008

Slide 1: Reed’s Law and the David Cushman EMAP demand curve

Slide 2: What is Reed’s Law? The number of possible sub-groups of network participants is 2 -n-1 n …where n is the number of participants.

Slide 3: Sarnoff’s Law The value of the network grows in proportion to the number of viewers.

Slide 4: Metcalfe’s Law Network grows in proportion to the number of nodes on the network (n squared).

Slide 5: Reed’s Law

Slide 6: “I am made greater by the sum of my connections – so are my connections” Stowe Boyd

Slide 7: Network with purpose

Slide 10: Blacksmith -

Slide 11: I am part of a community, therefore I am

Slide 12: Father/son/Holy Smoke!

Slide 13: The edglings The edglings want want more more!

Slide 14: An adjustment? 2 -n-1 n(x)

Slide 15: 2 -n-1 n(x)

Slide 16: We are more than Because we’re more than ‘N’just ‘n’

Slide 17: So what about the demand curve?

Slide 18: The long tail…

Slide 19: The Long Tail gets a little longer

Slide 20: Join the conversation… FasterFuture.blogspot.com