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Ambient Findability

Errata for Ambient Findability

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 3
3rd paragraph

Questions should begin with 'whom,' because they are objects of the verb 'ask.' (There are two in this paragraph)

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 5
3rd pargraph

Question should begin with 'whom,' object of verb 'trust.'

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 65
Boxed paragraph

According to Metcalf's Law, the value of networked systems increases
polynomially, +not+ exponentially: Network utility is proportional to the
square of the number of nodes in the network. It does _not_ increase
exponentially.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 169
footnote

The text on the top of the page 169 (lines 3-7) seems to be a quotation from the Malcolm Gladwell's book "Tipping Point", but the reference in the footnote is short ("Gladwell, p.141") and arranged as if its source is another Gladwell's book ("Blink", quoted on the page 157).

 Anonymous