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  2. ​ ‘tech economics’ tag

  3. ​ ‘end-to-end’ tag

  4. ​ The Man Who Discovered Network Effects Isn’t Sorry: Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, coined the law that explains the power and pathologies of social platforms. He also just won computing’s highest honor

  5. ​ How’d you come up with Metcalfe’s Law?

  6. ​ Moore’s Not Enough: 4 New Laws of Computing: Moore’s and Metcalfe’s conjectures are taught in classrooms every day—these four deserve consideration, too

  7. ​ Metcalfe’s Law as a Model for Bitcoin’s Value

  8. ​ Testing Metcalfe’s law: Pitfalls and possibilities

  9. ​ Metcalfe’s Law and Network Quality: An Extension of Zhang et al 2015

  10. ​ Tencent and Facebook Data Validate Metcalfe’s Law

  11. ​ Metcalfe’s law: not so wrong after all

  12. ​ Empirical validation of Metcalfe’s law: How Internet usage patterns have changed over time

  13. ​ Metcalfe’s Law after 40 Years of Ethernet

  14. ​ A refutation of Metcalfe’s Law and a better estimate for the value of networks and network interconnections

  15. ​ A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy

  16. ​ 2015-zhang-figure1-valuecurveoftencentsocialnetworkfollowingmetcalfeslaw.png

  17. ​ 2015-zhang-figure2-costcurveoffacebooksocialnetwork.png

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  19. ​ 2013-madueira-figure2-regressionfitofestimatedeconomicproductivityvsnetworkconnectivitywithineuropeanunioninferredfromeurostatdata.jpg

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    1. ​ 3Com

    2. ​ ALOHAnet

    3. ​ Beckstrom’s Law

    4. ​ Diseconomies of Scale

    5. ​ Dot-Com Bubble

    6. ​ Dunbar’s Number

    7. ​ Ethernet

    8. ​ Matthew Effect

    9. ​ Metcalfe’s Law

    10. ​ Reed’s Law

    11. ​ Robert Metcalfe

    12. ​ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Sarnoff