Adam Greenfield, contemplating orkut, looks at what friend-of-friend messaging does in social networks with high degree nodes, and it looks a lot like spam.
I think the fundamental problem is that there's no function to provide a context to the labelling.
A label is like a model or prediction. But without anything to predict the label has little point. Or you could think of it as a design approach without a problem to test fitness against.
It's like a lot of pointless attempts at defining ontologies/taxonomies for no clearly intended benefit.
1. Bill Seitz on January 31, 2004 8:40 AM writes...
I think the fundamental problem is that there's no function to provide a context to the labelling.
A label is like a model or prediction. But without anything to predict the label has little point. Or you could think of it as a design approach without a problem to test fitness against.
It's like a lot of pointless attempts at defining ontologies/taxonomies for no clearly intended benefit.
Permalink to Comment2. Bill Seitz on January 31, 2004 8:41 AM writes...
whoops, that somehow showed up for the wrong posting
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