At 09:24 AM 11/25/2002 -0800, Major Variola (ret) wrote:

Steve's excellent analysis of how the Network Effect worked against Mojo indicates a social-fix for Mojo++, ie: make it easy to get on and get content. Ie, get them hooked. They'll at least be autosharing stuff they've downloaded.

Not really . Mojo is not a file sharing system, its a publication based distributed file system. Each client mirrors but a small part of the 10**192 chucks of file space. Whether a client downloads content or not is only indirectly related to the chucks stored on their HD by their client/broker SW.

After they're hooked, folks may feel like contributing their time/attention to injecting new material, and to get "unlimited" access folks will have to contribute. But you have to get them hooked first.

And there in lie the problem. Without significantly reducing a user's effort to publish and/or providing some sort of encouragement to tweak the content meta-data (Kaaza has recently done that to help address leeching and hacker attempts to reduce content quality through spoofing and other tricks). steve