Re: Network identity / brand

Hi Markus, thank you for the clarification. I agree with that.

Revisiting the issue, I find that the former questions may be more 
appropriate for IT managers asking their technical staff if their 
systems are part of that movement. That's the "network identity" or 
movement identity I was talking about.

But it is more clear for users to ask them for their FedSocWeb ID.

On 07/07/12 15:42, Markus Sabadello wrote:
> Hmm it's one thing to ask site administrators if their site is part of 
> the ***.
> It's another thing to ask end users in everyday life if they are on 
> the ***.
>
> In the latter case, I think the closest you can get right now is to 
> ask "are you on Diaspora?"
> The correct question might be "are you on the Federated Social Web".
> But that doesn't seem to be an end-user friendly term.
>
> Maybe the question should not be "are you on...", but "what is 
> your...", i.e. asking for the identifier..
>
> Did people ask, "are you on the web"? No, they asked, "what is your 
> website URL"
> Did people ask, "are you on email"? No, they asked, "what is your 
> e-mail address".
> Will people ask, "are you on the FedSocWeb"? No they will ask "what is 
> your {name-of-identifier-on-the-FedSocWeb}".
>
> So, when trying to figure out the "network identity", then this really 
> seems related to the discussion on the other thread about "user 
> identifiers".
>
> Markus
>
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Antonio Tapiador del Dujo 
> <atapiador@dit.upm.es <mailto:atapiador@dit.upm.es>> wrote:
>
>     Something I am missing in the Federated Social Web is some kind of
>     network identity, which gathers all the sites that can talk to
>     each other. The kind of identity that appeared with "the internet"
>     or "the web" and people could ask "are you in the internet?" or
>     "do you have a website?"
>
>     Maybe we could build some kind of FedSocNet, so you could ask your
>     site admin, "is our site in the FedSocNet?"
>
>     What do you think?
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