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I remember back in the days when everyone was using ICQ on their dial up machines, one night a big giant called microsoft suddenly took over the sky of the web and had everyone using MSN. I also remember when I started using MSN I was so amazed by how the amazing free hotmail allowed me to import contact from my MSN messenger. It was a glorious year. I was a teenager, I was hooked that moment on. I also remember the day when I started using google instead of altavista, how I was amazed by google’s inner beauty other than its search engine. (*note: Altavista gets a link because I didn’t even think the site exists still)

In the article from WolrdChanging Blog it talks about Fractal Democracy.

small numbers of people, let’s say somewhere around 7 form the base cell of the organisation. Out of these, the group agrees on who represents their group will the best, and these selected persons form together with others who are selected to form the same kind of grouping, and these people then select one out of their group which goes up to the next level, where the same thing happens again. This method of distributing the will of the people is guaranteed to be totally representative, because it is the collective decision which ultimately feeds up to the top level, which irons out all the kinks.

we have noticed the preferential attachment law in application while we search on google. It is more likely that we click the hub.

I have found this other search engine (it’s a beta version and it does not search too well) called eurekster. This search engine would make the links that your friends linked to already on top. In a sense it’s an anti-preferential attachment. In another sense, it is creating its own preference. Instead of following the real hub, this search engine enables you to create your own hub in your own personal network.