A few months ago I signed up for FilmTrust. It’s an interesting project in which you can rate and reviews films and also add friends and add how much you trust their film ratings. The natural progression would be a personalised film recommendation system, but this doesn’t appear to exist yet. FilmTrust output a FOAF file for each user. For example, here’s

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XUP is an attempt to replace static per-site user accounts, which most present dynamic web sites use in absence of an easy to use and open/shared user account system. It allows people to use a single account or profile with many sites, or one of their existing user profiles on multiple other web sites. T...

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Leigh’s beaten me to it very slightly by making this post which explains how he wants to subscribe to an entire person’s output, and how to convert seeAlso’s to an OPML file. I’ve gone about it a different way. I now use FeedOnFeeds as my aggregator ...

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OK, so in my last post I rather eloquently described my distaste for the neutrino.xml format. My problems with it are manifold. In no particular order: it’s yet another meta-format and yet an...

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Sometimes it’s just better to blog something then to spend time actually thinking about it. A week ago I saw this photo in John Ressig’s photostream and asked him to post a larger screenshot,

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So, how about this for a FOAF application idea. How to find out what other people you know are watching, and hence, what you should be watching. Take a service like tv.bleb.org, GreaseMonkey it to add a button “I want to watch this” to each programme on the page (maybe with a “repeating item” checkbox), publish it as an iCalendar file (so ...

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Someone posted to the rdf-dev mailing list the other day, saying FOAF had had its chance to do any good, and had failed. Time to close up shop. He missed the point. FOAF is a data format. It’s the surrounding application infrastructure which needs a kick up the arse, not the format that needs killing. As of right now, I can’t give you one good example (off the top of my head) of a...

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Just some stream of consciousness: The Hula Server was announced the other day. Hula is a calendar and mail server. They’re planning on using

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You can now get the del.icio.us inbox for any user in FOAF format like so: http://philwilson.org:8180/foaflicious/foaflicious.groovy?user=pip – just substitute the username you want at the end of the URL

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Since the time I first saw them I’d thought that Gravatars, Favatars and FOAFatars (OK, I made that last one up but this is what I mean) were cool, but useless. I appear to have just proved ...

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