Re: The Case for the Federated Social Web

Markus Sabadello <markus.sabadello@gmail.com> wrote ..
> 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
> >
> >

Simple is good too, I think. Perhaps 'music' concept, you want to share your music collection with your friend, but definitely not the RIAA, and you don't want the stuck-up neighbors on your street to know you listen to Black Sabbath. A thought.

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Waitman Gobble
San Jose California USA