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[Chris Bielanski]

So FOAF == "Friend of a Friend". I figured that was the case but chose not
to assume.

I was part of the customer service crew at AOL when they were trying to roll
out the old Virtual Places browser client. Basically browser + avatar +
tourguides. Just off the top of my head I see this as everything VP did,
with the addition things like embedding a .plan, P2P
instant-messaging/fileshare/playlist/etc.

I wonder how many people are seeing FOAF as an enabler for P2P? That's what
hit me first, actually.

Thanks,
Chris Bielanski
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel De Gan [mailto:joel at tagword.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:18 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] firefox extension
> 
> 
> Hi Chris,
> FOAF is actually used for *much* more than just showing interlinking
> these days.
> I authored the MeNowDocument FOAF schema extension:
> http://schema.peoplesdns.com/menow/
> Which is to have frequently updated info and which will be the subject
> of my next firefox extension.
> 
> People are mapping foafers by airport codes, long/lat, using them for
> public/private keypairs, developing trust relationships and even using
> temporary ones for time-limited projects or dynamically 
> changing groups
> for cvs and project management.
> 
> It is fun to watch it evolve in an active manner.
> 
> -joeldg
> 
> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 16:11, inforequest 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
> > 
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> > 
> > 
> > 
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