In the past, I’ve mentioned to friends some of the thinking I’ve had about the Semantic Web, RDF, and related stuff (FOAF, RSS, and so on). Yesterday’s stuff, for example. On more than one occasion the response has been along the lines of “where are the apps — why are you thinking instead of doing?”. [...]
Coming back from a short break from the tech world recently, I started to reacquaint myself with FOAF and RDF, amongst other things. Looking at the FOAF data for various people, I was reminded of the model of indirection that is used to identify a person. <foaf:Person> <foaf:mbox>dj.adams@pobox.com</foaf:mbox> … </foaf:Person> Actually, while I think on, [...]
Good grief. Anyway, this exploration is certainly opening more doors than it’s closing. Actually, that’s not quite right. It’s showing me new doors that I choose to go through. This one had FOAF written on it in shiny brass letters. FOAF is a project under the RDFWeb umbrella, and is an effort to build a [...]