http://rashmisinha.com/2007/04/16/social-websites-and-the-theory-of-cumulative-advantage-or-the-rich-get-richer-effect/ Thoughts about people, technology and running a company Tue, 15 May 2012 11:26:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rashmisinha.com/2007/04/16/social-websites-and-the-theory-of-cumulative-advantage-or-the-rich-get-richer-effect/#comment-577 Tue, 01 May 2007 15:04:17 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=267#comment-577 “The rich get richer effect” is ubiquitous in nature. Any type of self-evolving networks have been shown to exhibit this behavior. The mechanics for this have been first explained by Reka Albert and Albert Barabasi in their famous paper. Although, I do not believe that there is a way to counteract this effect, I do know that the problem offers an interesting domain for thought.

]]> http://rashmisinha.com/2007/04/16/social-websites-and-the-theory-of-cumulative-advantage-or-the-rich-get-richer-effect/#comment-576 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:04:42 +0000 http://www.rashmisinha.com/?p=267#comment-576 “What this means for the social web – the links, songs, videos and slideshows that win out are not necessarily the best.”. It also means that we (the content providers like SlideShare) have the power to manipluate the ranking if we wish to… just by changing a few numbers around…. or does it?

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