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inforequest sm11szw02-at-sneakemail.com |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:

> Chris Bielanski Cbielanski-at-inta.org |nyphp 04/2004| wrote:
>
>> Joel can you email me offlist and tell me WTH "Foafer" is/does? I'm 
>> dropping
>> it on the list in case I'm not the only one in the dark.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris Bielanski
>>
>
> For those interested, FOAF is "_F_riend _O_f _A_ _F_riend".
>
> First people started "blogging".  Then bloggers started listing their 
> friends blogs in a sidebar on their blogs
>
> Since those friends also listed their friends blogs in sidebars of 
> their blogs, someone noticed that these friends links on linked blogs 
> were actually representative of a "social network". Think like the way 
> Google does (links = relationships) and you'll see the potential.
>
> When blog hosting services noticed they were hosting thousands of 
> interlinked blogs, they knew they could analyze the internetworking on 
> the back end. In order to do it across bloghosts, some standard means 
> would be needed. FOAF is the prevailing technology for doing that 
> using XML.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> -=john
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------John 
> Andrews, personal homepage with dancing bears not expected anytime soon.


Sorry.. forgot the link. I consider this a good intro paper on the FOAF 
approach
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-foaf.html