Re: Network identity / brand

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> 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?
>
>