Sikosis, I understand, and I am sure that Laconica will do well as micro blogging platform. But the real potential behind it, is the federation abilities. However the benefit of those federation abilities rely on the network effect of the users, which in turn rely on users being able to easily identify and communicate to each other that they are on compatible platforms that are conforming to the OpenMicroBlogging spec, whether they are using Laconica or not. I don't see that the required branding is in place for this to happen, with normal users.
-Pflodo Peter Flodin On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Sikosis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't know why there is an issue on branding the product is called > Laconica -- how hard is that for you to grasp ? > > Cheers > > Sikosis > > On 22/11/2008, at 8:14 AM, "Peter Flodin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I think there are some fundamental branding issues that need to be >> addressed before Laconica can hit critical mass. Or rather >> OpenMicroBlogging can hit critical mass. >> >> The obvious comparison is to twitter, and even the Australian PM >> (KevinRuddPM) understands what it means to "follow someone on >> Twitter", a brilliant measure of success if there ever was one. >> >> However twitter is both a platform, product and a service, the >> branding is easy for a user to understand. >> >> What is required is that branding of an OpenMicroBlogging service is >> so obvious that anybody on identi.ca, twitarmy, etc just know that >> they can subscribe to each other, not by looking at some list, but by >> brand recognition. >> >> Jabber is probably a good comparison (even though it hasn't quite hit >> KevinRuddPM level of mainstream), "Do you have a Jabber account?", and >> the answer in my case is my Google Talk details, the fact where my >> account is held is not important. The world before SMTP dominance (for >> the older ones in the audience) is another example, it wasn't >> sufficient to ask if somebody had email, you needed to know if your >> mail system could email the recipient's system. >> >> >> So what I see is needed is a brand name for OpenMicroBlogging >> compatible services, (I'll just call that brand OMB for now), as you >> should be able to say something like "Did you see that the Australian >> PM is using OMB?", "Did you see what Leo Laporte posted on his OMB, it >> is at http://army.twit.tv/leo";. "Follow me on OMB:service/user". Where >> I have my account, Whether it uses Laconica is not important, can't be >> important - at least not if KevinRuddPM is ever going to use it. >> >> Hmm, maybe laconica-dev is not the right place for this, as it is far >> removed from the source-code of Laconica, I am sure you will let me >> know...:-) >> >> Pflodo >> Peter Flodin >> _______________________________________________ >> Laconica-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev > _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
