Re: The Case for the Federated Social Web

In "Case for business", is this about why would businesses use FSW
technology internally, within a closed enterprise environment?

Or is it about why would business in general profit from a global FSW?

In the latter case, the big argument I think is VRM.. I.e. via FSW, both
individuals and businesses could control "their" side of the relationship,
can update each other with stuff they are really interested in, etc..

Markus

On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> wrote:

>  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
>
>