PUBLIC MARKS with tag foaf

The prototype uses FOAF and SIOC to model microbloggers, their properties, account and service information, and the microblog updates that users create. A multitude of publishing services can ping one or a set of aggregating servers as selected by each user, and it is important to note that users retain control of their own data through self hosting.

the above illustrates just how simple it is to write some very clear inferencing rules.

The problem – a problem – with FOAF and RDF is quite simple. People don’t want formats that can do anything, they want formats that can do something. I got a Flickr API downloader going in about 30 minutes, taking my time. I’ve put hours into FOAF and still am unhappy.

WebCamp on Social Network Portability / Kingsley Hotel, Cork / 2nd March 2008

the funkiest slide I've seen for a while.

This ontology aims at providing a simple vocabulary for describing programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc. Its development was funded by the BBC, and is heavily grounded on previous programmes data modelling work done there. This documentation page is a first draft. All feedback on either the ontology or this page is welcomed! Feel free to email the authors mentioned aboved. The design and layout of this ontology document is based on the Music Ontology and FOAF Vocabulary specification documents, and was generated using the following hand-tuned onto_spec.pl SWI-Prolog script and HTML templates.

But when Orkut was blocked at the ISP level in Iran, pretty much nobody in the English-speaking blog-tech-pundit scene seemed to even notice. This continues to bug me. Web technologists apparantly care collectively more about freeing Robert Scoble’s addressbook from Facebook, than about the real potential for unmediated, uncensored, global online community.

proposal to establish a reasonable privacy balance in social networking environment.