Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Unfinished Thoughts About Network Valuation

If one were to think of the stock market as a network, how much is it worth?
Or take one of the larger open source software projects; how would you evaluate the group as a network? Is it feasible, or even meaningful? It seems most valuations are generated from advertisement rates- someone expects to generate a certain amount of revenue for having x number of eyeballs. But what about the productive side of things? How can we make an honest evaluation when we know the differences between each person, especially in terms of value added, will be huge?

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