I’ve been using the SPARQL query language to access a very ad-hoc collection of personal and social graph data, and thanks to Bengee’s ARC system this can sit inside my otherwise ordinary Wordpress installation. At the moment, everything in there is public, but lately I’ve been discussing oauth with a few folk as a way [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Public Skype RDF presence service
OK I don’t know how this works, or how it happens (other Asemantics people might know more), but for those who didn’t know:
At http://mystatus.skype.com/danbrickley.xml there is a public RDF/XML document reflecting my status in Skype. There seems to be one for every active account name in the system.
Example markup:
<rdf:RDF>
<Status rdf:about=”urn:skype:skype.com:skypeweb/1.1″>
<statusCode rdf:datatype=”http://www.skype.com/go/skypeweb”>5</statusCode>
<presence xml:lang=”NUM”>5</presence>
<presence xml:lang=”en”>Do Not [...]
Posted in FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Semantic Web, Technology, ggg 6 Comments
Outbox FOAF crawl: using the Google SG API to bring context to email
OK here’s a quick app I hacked up on my laptop largely in the back of a car, ie. took ~1 hour to get from idea to dataset.
Idea is the usual FOAFy schtick about taking an evidential rather than purely claim-based approach to the ’social graph’.
We take the list of people I’ve emailed, and we [...]
Posted in Technology, coding, ggg, privacy 5 Comments
RDF in Ruby revisited
If you’re interested in collaborating on Ruby tools for RDF, please join the public-rdf-ruby@w3.org mailing list at W3C. Just send a note to public-rdf-ruby-request@w3.org with a subject line of “subscribe”.
Last weekend I had the fortune to run into Rich Kilmer at O’Reilly’s ‘Social graph Foo Camp‘ gathering. In addition to helping decorate my tent, Rich [...]
Posted in RDF, SPARQL, Web Technology, coding, ruby Tagged ruby rdf richkilmer mattbiddulph hackdiary 5 Comments
“Dear reader”…
 QOTD:
You, the reader of this document, are not a normal user.
– Brad’s thoughts on the social graph.
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Ian Hixie and Mark Nottingham on Web Architecture
Ian:
I disagree with much of Web Arch.
Mark:
Well, there you go then. This clarifies a lot of what’s going on here, I think.
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Google Social Graph API, privacy and the public record
I’m digesting some of the reactions to Google’s recently announced Social Graph API. ReadWriteWeb ask whether this is a creeping privacy violation, and danah boyd has a thoughtful post raising concerns about whether the privileged tech elite have any right to experiment in this way with the online lives of those who are lack status, [...]
Posted in Activism, Essays, FOAF, Jabber/XMPP, Politics, RDF, Semantic Web, Technology, Web Technology, ggg, privacy Tagged danahboyd, FOAF, google, privacy, social graph, socialgraphapi, timoreilly, xfn 5 Comments