After reading this blog about adding Friend of a Friend (FOAF) to a web page, and I did this but I wasn't happy with the result. I then found the FOAF project page and used the FOAF-a-matic to create an RDF that's now embedded ins this blog. Yes, I supposed to publish a file called foaf.rdf but you can't have it all.
If you have FOAF, let me know - and I might add you as a friend ;)
- edited back to the original - thanks Tom
Showing posts with label FOAF. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FOAF. Show all posts
Friday, March 21, 2008
Saturday, October 20, 2007
OpenID and the Friend of a Friend social network problem
I've been reading some of the Google Groups about social network portability, and this was an interesting side from David Recordon.
Surely there's got to be a lot of leg room for OpenID as the data carrier of some kind of FOAF micro-format? OpenID can be extended, and if everyone moves towards OpenID as the authentication method of choice, surely that can be represented as a node in the social graph.
Something work thinking about methinks...
Surely there's got to be a lot of leg room for OpenID as the data carrier of some kind of FOAF micro-format? OpenID can be extended, and if everyone moves towards OpenID as the authentication method of choice, surely that can be represented as a node in the social graph.
Something work thinking about methinks...
Saturday, October 06, 2007
Facebook vs Your Favourite RSS Reader
In the last week or so my web life has changed. I thought I was using RSS properly on iGoogle, but considered the change to Google Reader. Now with email like behaviour rather than static like content, I'm getting much more from the web then before.
This all makes me think about the Facebook debate about walled gardens. To be honest, I do have a Facebook account, but find it generally quite annoying. What it is great at is something close to online personal CRM app with lots of people contributing to. I've already used it a few times to get contact information from when I've not had someones number and needed to get in touch with them.
I think for me, although the friend of a friend (FOAF) issues remain, I'd much rather sign up for various web apps (Twitter, del.icio.us, Dopplr, Flickr and blogs) feeds and watch those through my RSS reader than watch those through Facebook.
It frankly amazes me that they're considered worth £10bn or something. It must be through potential advertising channels and otherwise.
In an effort to attempt to circumnavigate Facebook, I've set up a Yahoo! Pipe to grab all my feeds from across the web and suck then all in one place. For now, you can see that here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=8vLND2N03BGbhg_g1vC6Jw&_render=rss
This all makes me think about the Facebook debate about walled gardens. To be honest, I do have a Facebook account, but find it generally quite annoying. What it is great at is something close to online personal CRM app with lots of people contributing to. I've already used it a few times to get contact information from when I've not had someones number and needed to get in touch with them.
I think for me, although the friend of a friend (FOAF) issues remain, I'd much rather sign up for various web apps (Twitter, del.icio.us, Dopplr, Flickr and blogs) feeds and watch those through my RSS reader than watch those through Facebook.
It frankly amazes me that they're considered worth £10bn or something. It must be through potential advertising channels and otherwise.
In an effort to attempt to circumnavigate Facebook, I've set up a Yahoo! Pipe to grab all my feeds from across the web and suck then all in one place. For now, you can see that here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=8vLND2N03BGbhg_g1vC6Jw&_render=rss
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