Joshua Schachter
All you need is links
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To do it right, he told Page, you’d really have to capture a significant chunk of the World Wide Web’s link structure. Page said, sure, he’d go and download the web and get the structure. He figured it would take a week or something. “And of course,” he later recalled, “it took, like, years.”
Steven Levy • In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
Success here will come down to implementation details. The incentive structure, funding sources, size, goals, moderation approach, and community management philosophy of these networks will determine their long term viability as both businesses and communities.
Toby Shorin • Come for the Network, Pay for the Tool
