The idea of hub exists not only in the social network; moreover, it can be considered in an online space. Even though it is suggested by Barabasi that hub is nautrally formed, the question of "can we create hub?" emerged in my mind.
As I previously suggested, I have noticed the "key person" or the connector in a social context where a person that connects different clusters together. To think of the idea of hub in a cyberspace context, we can consider yahoo as a hub because there are so many page pointed to yahoo. If we were to create a person as a connector in a society, we would have to push the person to a very social level. (The example of social climbers who try to meet all different people all the time can be considered a creation of connector.) Even though it is defined that the hub online would be the page that's most linked; however, by thinking about the 12 degree of separation between each page on the internet, when it comes to network, size does not always matter. Yahoo has a huge amount of links linking to it that's why it works as a hub. If we were to create a hub, we do not necessary need to create another Yahoo. Instead, I would like to think that for one day, or one week, The Oracle of Bacon was considered to be a hub. When it became popular over the 15 minutes of fame, they were getting a huge amount of incoming traffic everyday. When something becomes so popular, the amount of links pointing to the page evidently go up too. If the number goes way up wouldn't the page becomes a hub? The best example of the evolution from a popular page into a hub would be slashdot.org. Slashdot started as a forum and now it's the biggest forum/newsgroup and probably one of the most popular news feed too. Looking back at the idea of hub in a social sense, as I mentioned before, a realtor, an agent, a PR, or even a housewife would be such great example of hub.
