For years I've been telling people about the Tayler curve and trying to get them to publish the nice drawings I make.

Tayler's curve You've heard of Metcalf's law, but how about Tayler's curve huh?

Faces light up with interest and they ask about the ramifications. Great, they want to publish in the NYT this next week and they ask about the numbers behind the chart.

So I go ahead and I tell them I've gathered no actual scientific evidence for support and in fact I just made up numbers until I got a nice curve well...they just seem to loose interest. But you should read on!

Metcalf's Law goes something like this:

"the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of its users"

Tayler's Curve says that in a telephone network, the value always increases, but in a Social Network, part of the value is relevant information and introductions to people you should stay in touch with and over time, relevance and value ultimately decline if there is no exclusion to the community.

So, what does this all have to do with OpenSocial? Well, OpenSocial is what makes many exclusive social networks equally valuable to any number of widget makers who make creative use of the Social Graph.

Social Networks concentrate on the core community, and widget makers are creative with any community in mind, but widgets can spread to new Social Networks where they are given new meaning.

Power to disruptive technology! Power to OpenSocial!