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FOAF and Web of Trust

Marc Cantor recently sent an email to the RDFWeb-Dev mailing list regarding FOAF. I chatted with Marc about this offline, and also the concept of ‘verification’ of FOAF relationships. The social aspects of the increased interest in FOAF, I’ll discuss in the Burningbird weblog, but there are some RDF components I wanted to touch on here. For […]

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Lots of FOAF

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There seems to be a great deal of activity about FOAF lately, as pointed out by Danny Ayers: The FOAF (“friend-of-a-friend”) page on the project Wiki is growing into a great link collection, so presumably there’s a fair bit of cross-project interest. The FOAF project now has a new home page, a weblog, a Wiki and IRC […]

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RDF Writing

It’s alive!

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RDF Writing

And now, a little RDF

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Practical RDF book rolls off the assembly line this week and I need to provide some support for it, including re-awakening the Practical RDF weblog and writing some articles for O’Reilly. No time for a vacation – I have a book to sell. This last week was a bitch of a […]

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Ready for prime time

A while back, Marc Cantor talked about RDF, saying: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I see and hear – but what I DON’T see are many apps and services actually up and running and working. We have a saying over here: […]