New Fundamental Law of Network Economics: “intersys writes ‘A new fundamental law of economics has been formulated by Rod Beckstrom, former Director of the National Cyber Security Center. In Words: The value of a network equals the net value added to each user’s transactions (PDF) conducted through that network, valued from the perspective of each user, and summed for all. It answers the decades-old question of ‘how valuable is a network.’

(Via Slashdot.)