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WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN's review on Linked on June 23,2002."We are witnessing a revolution in the making as scientists from all different disciplines discover that complexity has a strict architecture," he writes. These networks do not operate at ...

"A review of Linked: The New Science of Networks.Much of the existing literature marvels at the beauty of complex organizations but doesn't take us past awe and eye candy. Yes, emergence exists but by what rules? Barabasi describes simple rules."

"A scale-free network is a noteworthy kind of complex network because many "real-world networks" fall into this category. For purposes of this article, "real-world" refers to any of various observable phenomena that exhibit network theoretic character..."

"The joy of Albert-László Barabási's book, Linked: The New Science of Networks is that, after reading it, you can't look anywhere without seeing networks. The book, which is currently ranked 99th on Amazon's top seller's list, leaves a powerful imprint on the mind's eye.Did you realize that it takes an average of only one link per node to bind together a random conglomeration of 100 nodes into a seamless network? ..."

Page 2 of Linked: Hiding behind the pseudonym MafiaBoy, this fifteen-year-old successfully halted the operations of billion-dollar companies with access to the best computer security in the world.

Feeding relationships can cause invasions, extirpations, and population fluctuations of a species to dramatically affect other species within a variety of natural habitats. Empirical evidence suggests that such strong effects rarely propagate through food webs more than three links away from the initial perturbation.

We quantify the dynamical implications of the small-world phenomenon. We consider the generic synchronization of oscillator networks of arbitrary topology, and link the linear stability of the synchronous state to an algebraic condition of the Laplacian of the graph. We show numerically that the addition of random shortcuts produces improved network synchronizability.

Two interesting points: 1. The seed set for AltaVista must be at least 10 million (actually, presumably, much larger). Creating a huge seed set almost as important as crawling.2. How on earth does AltaVista find URLs for 10 million isolated pages?

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi's photo.

"There is a path between any two neurons in our brain, between any two companies in the world, between any two chemicals in our body. Nothing is excluded from this highly interconnected web of life." The book also gives readers a historical overview.

How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Science, Business and Everyday Life. This is an official website of Linked