Comments on: Beyond Backlinks, LiveJournal connections, and David Brin’s Earth http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb It's all spinning wheels and self-doubt until the first pot of coffee. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:00:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: Bill Seitz http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-122 Bill Seitz Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-122 <p>I have a bit of Earth extract here.</p> I have a bit of Earth extract here.

]]> By: Ken MacLeod http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-123 Ken MacLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-123 <p>Take a peek at the FOAF vocabulary. This works much like RSS in that you "just put the file at a URL" and then everybody else needs to just link to it to get the info. Then you can use aggregators, or just spiders, to do "here's other people who...".</p> <p>They have properties for mail address, homepage, image, nicks, work info, knows (people), interests, projects, etc. and it's wide open for extension.</p> Take a peek at the FOAF vocabulary. This works much like RSS in that you "just put the file at a URL" and then everybody else needs to just link to it to get the info. Then you can use aggregators, or just spiders, to do "here's other people who...".

They have properties for mail address, homepage, image, nicks, work info, knows (people), interests, projects, etc. and it's wide open for extension.

]]> By: l.m.orchard http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-124 l.m.orchard Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-124 <p>Actually, I've been peeking at FOAF off and on for awhile yet, since it looks like they want to do a lot of what I want to do... but I haven't seen it go very far yet. I should peek again. I think if somehow it managed to take off in blogspace, it'd be wild. Or, it could fall flat and no one really gets interested. Hmm, need to look at it again though, all the same.</p> Actually, I've been peeking at FOAF off and on for awhile yet, since it looks like they want to do a lot of what I want to do... but I haven't seen it go very far yet. I should peek again. I think if somehow it managed to take off in blogspace, it'd be wild. Or, it could fall flat and no one really gets interested. Hmm, need to look at it again though, all the same.

]]> By: Ken MacLeod http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-125 Ken MacLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-125 <p>As is rather typical, the RDF folks actually have no tools for it (specifically), and their libraries are on the complex end of the scale ("all of RDF goodness"). FOAF-for-the-rest-of-us needs someone interested in writing the little tools necessary to make it work easily, like readers, to-html, viewers, etc. I'll check to see if my Orchard (no relation :-) tool will read it, since it's a generic RDF-lite reader that I used for RSS 1.0.</p> As is rather typical, the RDF folks actually have no tools for it (specifically), and their libraries are on the complex end of the scale ("all of RDF goodness"). FOAF-for-the-rest-of-us needs someone interested in writing the little tools necessary to make it work easily, like readers, to-html, viewers, etc. I'll check to see if my Orchard (no relation :-) tool will read it, since it's a generic RDF-lite reader that I used for RSS 1.0.

]]> By: Ken MacLeod http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-126 Ken MacLeod Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-126 <p>Oops, no, Orchard's RDF support isn't generic. The gist of it is there, it's missing the parser tho.</p> Oops, no, Orchard's RDF support isn't generic. The gist of it is there, it's missing the parser tho.

]]> By: eliot http://decafbad.com/blog/2002/05/31/oooagb#comment-127 eliot Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.decafbad.com/blog/?p=151#comment-127 <p>I miss that feature about LiveJournal. Last month I completed my move to Movable Type from LiveJournal. I really get tired of clicking around to see who all has updated their weblogs.. then go log in to LiveJournal to read my old friends page (there a lot of entries that are marked as friends-only). </p> <p>A big weblog directory would be very nice. Something for people to register with and connect with other people instead of just randomly clicking around (like how I found you!). You could then find people based on their interest of coffee, Radiohead, and Jabber or maybe where they live. If you liked the person's content, you'd just go back to their profile and click "add to my friends page" .. then the database would do all the same things that LiveJournal does. hmmm... i like this idea.....</p> I miss that feature about LiveJournal. Last month I completed my move to Movable Type from LiveJournal. I really get tired of clicking around to see who all has updated their weblogs.. then go log in to LiveJournal to read my old friends page (there a lot of entries that are marked as friends-only).

A big weblog directory would be very nice. Something for people to register with and connect with other people instead of just randomly clicking around (like how I found you!). You could then find people based on their interest of coffee, Radiohead, and Jabber or maybe where they live. If you liked the person's content, you'd just go back to their profile and click "add to my friends page" .. then the database would do all the same things that LiveJournal does. hmmm... i like this idea.....

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