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In the time since the dotcom boom, the magnitude of Metcalfe's Law has been argued.

Last I heard, the argument was that the effect for social networking was closer to nlogn than n^2. If true, then quadrupling in size may increase the value by some number of percentage points instead of an order of magnitude.

Which means 'big enough' may not be that big.




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