The Case for the Federated Social Web

Hi, everyone.

So, one thing I've always liked about the Open Source Initiative is that 
it included on its main pages a case for Open Source software for 
various audiences -- end users, developers, and businesses.

I'm not sure what happened to all the cases, but at least the case for 
business is still there:

http://www.opensource.org/advocacy/case_for_business.php

I wonder: could we put together a case for the federation model for 
different constituencies?

I've started three pages on the wiki to collect arguments for each group:

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_individuals

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_business

http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/federatedsocialweb/wiki/Case_for_developers

It'd be great to start pulling together our various reasons for 
supporting federation into documents targeted at these audiences.

Also: is there another audience we should be targeting? Government?

-Evan