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Weblog:   ETech: FOAF
Subject:   Waiting...
Date:   2004-02-15 00:05:50
From:   scottallen1
FOAF is a technology waiting for an application. Ecademy produces a FOAF file, but then where am I supposed to use it? And once Tribe gets theirs up and going, my Ecademy FOAF file and my Tribe FOAF file won't be the same, since my contacts aren't the same in both contexts. Where and how am I supposed to meaningfully aggregate them?


It all sounds great in theory, but we're still a long ways from a practical application usable by mainstream users. Aren't we? It looks like for now, this is still something that's going to be relegated to XML-savvy hackers (which doesn't include me).


Tell me I'm wrong and you'll make me very happy.
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  • Robert Kaye photo Waiting...
    2004-02-16 16:22:49  Robert Kaye | O'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

    Before the conference I would've agreed with you. But I learned that LiveJournal, Ecadamy and Tribe.net are adding FOAF support (see the comment from Tribe.net CEO Paul Martino) to their applications. This means that soon there will be 2+ million FOAF profiles -- FOAF is finally getting some uptake and I would expect this to continue...
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