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On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 9:29 AM, Peter Flodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
