From my Skype logs [2008-06-19 Dan Brickley: 18:24:23]
So I had a drunken dream about online microcurrencies last night. Also about cats and water-slides but that’s another story. Idea was of a karma donation system based on one-off assignments from person to person of specified chunks of their lifetime; ‘giving the time of day’. you’re [...]
Tag Archives: FOAF
The Time of Day
RDFa Basics video from Manu Sporny
Via Dave Beckett in #swig IRC, Manu Sporny’s handy 10 minute overview of RDFa Basics (see also other versions, source materials).
Here’s a screen grab of the full FOAF example used. Note that the WG renamed ‘instanceof’ to ‘typeof’ recently.
For the video-averse, a full transcript is available. Here’s the full XHTML markup example from the above [...]
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 Also tagged danahboyd, google, privacy, social graph, socialgraphapi, timoreilly, xfn 5 Comments
Waving not Drowning? groups as buddylist filters
I’ve lately started writing up and prototyping around a use-case for the “Group” construct in FOAF and for medium-sized, partially private data aggregators like SparqlPress. I think we can do something interesting to deal with the social pressure and information load people are experiencing on sites like Flickr and Twitter.
Often people have rather large lists [...]
Posted in Essays, Image Description, SPARQL, Technology, ggg Also tagged facebook, filters, flickr, groups, information overload, sparqlpress, twitter, xfn 5 Comments