[BOAI] Internet 101

[Stevan Harnad]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Armbruster, Chris wrote:

Any Internet 101 course will include plenty of examples where deposit,

content and service are assembled within a single site (by one provider,

company etc.) - the list is really very long, from ArXiv to Amazon, SSRN

to Flickr, RePEc to Facebook and so on. Internet 101 theory will then

elucidate why this is so an (e.g. network effects, economies of scale

and so on). Creating thousands of little repositories was probably never

a good idea ...


Umm, I guess Internet 101 will also tell us that creating billions of little
sites was never a good idea and we should all be depositing directly in
Google...
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