Tag Archives: FOAF

OpenID News

2/13/2007 – 2:01 pm

Since my WordPress upgrade and theme change, the OpenID sign-on functionality here has been a little iffy. I think I’ve got all the kinks worked out now, and it should be working correctly again. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Microformats, OpenID, Services, Standards, Tech, Themes, WordPress | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Semantic Web

7/28/2004 – 12:19 pm

Paul Ford uses a fictional story from five years in the future to explain the semantic web: August 2009: How Google Beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web.

For more info about the Semantic Web concept:

I suspect that Paul’s story is ispired by Perhaps Paul’s story inspired some actual events…

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Social Networking

1/8/2004 – 3:44 pm

In 1967, Stanley Milgram proposed the “small world theory”, which proposed that every person on earth is connected to every other person by a chain of just six other people. In other words, you know somebody, who knows somebody, etc., You might have heard of a humorous application of this called the Kevin Bacon Game. [...]

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JSF Member

1/30/2003 – 7:21 am

A few weeks ago, I applied for membership with the Jabber Software Foundation. The vote for new members was yesterday, and all 17 people up for membership were voted in as new JSF Members.

The responsibilities are pretty light — particpate in the jabber mailing lists, evangalize Jabber technology, and participate in the quarterly meetings. [...]

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More on FoafComments

1/24/2003 – 2:59 pm

Eric Sigler has whipped out a prototype of the FOAF Comment Identity idea. [...]

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Another nifty use for FOAF

1/22/2003 – 1:04 pm

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. [...]

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More Mapping Goodness

1/8/2003 – 11:37 am

Yesterday was just full of map references. Another cool thing I found out about is the Jabber World Map. If you are a Jabber user, you can register with the map notifier, and your status will show up on the map. [...]

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Mapping Blogspace

1/7/2003 – 10:03 am

Geography rules.

I’ve been trying to work out some sort of concensus for how to include location info in FOAF files. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Geolocation | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Noticed

12/27/2002 – 1:58 pm

I was starting to think that nobody noticed my JabFoaf announcment. On the one hand, I figured that a lot of people are too busy with holiday travelling/relaxing to worry about FOAF. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Blogs, Jabber | Comments (0)

Announcing: JabFoaf

12/20/2002 – 9:09 am

Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a couple of different FOAF-related projects wandering around the back of my brain. [...]

By Dougal | Posted in Jabber | Also tagged | Comments (0)