On the Virtues of Being Popular
In any network, some nodes are more connected than others, making them ‘hubs’. This is a recurring pattern in the evolution of successful networks, ranging from the world wide web to many natural ecosystems. A ‘hub’ is not just a node with a few more connections than a usual node; a hub has connections to many other nodes – many quite distant – and also connects many disparate nodes (nodes of very different types). If you were to count all the connections each node has, you would get a mathematical distribution called a ‘power-law’ distribution with relatively few hyper-connected nodes – hubs – and a ‘long tail’ of less connected nodes.
Group items matching
in title, tags, annotations or url
1More
1More
The concept of an open organization | Opensource.com - 0 views
1More
How to address common open source community issues | Opensource.com - 0 views
1More
Linus Torvalds rants about new programming interfaces | ITworld - 0 views
1More
Digital Distinction - Status-Specific Types of Internet Usage - 1 views
8More
Are You An Internet Optimist or Pessimist? The Great Debate over Technology's Impact on... - 11 views
2More
The Penguin and the Leviathan: The Triumph of Cooperation Over Self-Interest - P2P Foun... - 3 views
1More
Open source software builds strong roots for better governance | Opensource.com - 0 views
Linux Foundation Advocates for a Big Tent to Improve Open Source - Datamation - 0 views
14More
Network organisation for the 21st century : turbulence - 4 views
1More
Top Challenges for Desktop Linux - Datamation - 0 views
‹ Previous
21 - 31 of 31
Showing 20▼ items per page