On Wed Mar 11 18:16:32 2009, Remko Tronçon wrote: > > We should be prepared to answer the question why Jabber? My > sister has a > > Skype account and her friends also have one. Why should she > download > > this Jabber thing? Don't answer with freedom and open -- that has > no > > meaning for the average user. > > As a goal, this doesn't say much to the average user indeed. > However, > you could swing it in a way that says "Connects/Works with/... > popular > services such as Google Talk, Live Journal, ..." Security could > indeed > also appeal to some (I think people like to hear that what they're > doing is 'secure', they don't even need to understand). > Accountability > and transparency, that I don't really know why that would be useful. > > Oh. I didn't think this was about useful. I thought this was about convincing Dirk's sister with impressive sounding buzzwords that we can backup with some kind of fact.
> I agree we should make a strong case for switching. And that's why > we > need deployed and working features such as Jingle to leverage this. Jingle, etc, yes. But really, we need to make it cool. The only way I can see to do that is to add on social networking as a core feature of "Jabber". Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade _______________________________________________ JDev mailing list Forum: http://www.jabberforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=20 Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/jdev Unsubscribe: jdev-unsubscr...@jabber.org _______________________________________________
