Comments on: on rating adoption http://social-creature.com/on-rating-adoption culture, consumer insight, & marketing strategy Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: jenks http://social-creature.com/on-rating-adoption/comment-page-1#comment-675 jenks Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:30:40 +0000 http://social-creature.com/on-rating-adoption#comment-675 thomas - totally! i'm getting to that later in this series.... somewhere around part 3 or 4. stay tuned.... :) thomas – totally! i’m getting to that later in this series…. somewhere around part 3 or 4. stay tuned….

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]]> By: Thomas Dillman http://social-creature.com/on-rating-adoption/comment-page-1#comment-674 Thomas Dillman Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:26:21 +0000 http://social-creature.com/on-rating-adoption#comment-674 An additional adoption formula that started the whole network effect discussion was created by Metcalfe's to determine how to sell more Ethernet cards. The issue being there was no reason to buy an Ethernet card until other people bought one since it is only valuable if you can connect to others via ethernet. The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users. Here is the wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe_law This law rules the adoption universe as we currently know it. An additional adoption formula that started the whole network effect discussion was created by Metcalfe’s to determine how to sell more Ethernet cards. The issue being there was no reason to buy an Ethernet card until other people bought one since it is only valuable if you can connect to others via ethernet.

The value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of users. Here is the wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe_law

This law rules the adoption universe as we currently know it.

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