Saturday, June 28, 2003

FOAF time. FOAF Project revamp. Dan Brickley's had a good clear up on the rdfweb site (the home of FOAF). The front page is now the MT blog, which he's been busy with - looks like we might be seeing daily tips ;-) RDFWeb: Friend of a Friend (FOAF) Project [Raw Blog] Just starting to grok this FOAF scene out.  My conversation with Morten Fredericksen was enlightening.  Now I see that their 'face' is coming together.   Soon (maybe) they'll even be a FOAF.org  so if someone wants to find out (discover) something on FOAF - they don't have to Google it.  All standards should have it's own .org page. That leads one to wonder about Echo.org - which is currently under control of some...... Anyway - back to FOAF.  So I went to add some 'friends' to my FOAF list last night and sure enough - there are two ways to do that!  Just when I thought I had a handle on it - it goes meta on me! Hopefully by the end of today:      - I'll have resolved these two ways of depicting friends and have added Danny and Jonathan      - Then I can start on becoming friends with Aaron, Libby, Dan and others - so I can eventually add them as well      - I'll spend some time grokking afew more FOAF:types - like nearest airport.....      - And stand in line and wait for the new FOAF-a-matic      - and MOST IMPORTANTLY start thinking about using FOAF.....      - because as you all well know, TypePad will be using FOAF for blogrolls and...... Morten turned me onto a XML version of the FOAF bulletin board, which could then (concievably) be used for that horrible of all horrible concepts - centralized discoverability!  "Oh my"  "Heaven forbid!"  And for the record - the SVG stuff doesn't work.  I've tried four times to load it - on three different machines.  So I can't get FOAFnaut to work. Here's a dumb question - representation of more than one degree of friendship?  Has anyone 'done' that yet?  Yet another level of hierarchy?   Formalised at all - yet? [Marc's Voice] 7:14:18 AM    trackback []     Articulate []