[nycphp-talk] firefox extension
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Wed Jul 28 12:14:20 EDT 2004
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
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