Another nifty use for FOAF

Ben Hammersley has taken an idea of Dave Winer’s and added a cool twist to it: Using FOAF For Comment Identity and Followups.

I’ll probably work on implementing something like this on my site…in my Copious Free Time. Ahem.

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