1 [[!meta title="Friend of a Friend"]]
3 [FOAF][] is an [RDF][] language describing social networks and related
4 information. FOAF tries to social networking available to the
5 [Semantic Web][], making your identity and friendships machine
6 readable. An interesting FOAF application, if you have enough
7 tech-savy friends is [Foaf+SSL][]. For an intuitive explanation of
8 how FOAF+SSL works, take a look at Henry Story's [paradigm shift][PS]
11 For the curious, I've created [[my own FOAF file|foaf.rdf]]. You
12 should also check out the [SIOC Project][SIOC]'s [Semantic Radar][SR]
13 plugin, which notifies you of the existence of interesting RDF data as
14 you browse the web (and inspired my [[rel-vcs]] plugin).
16 [FOAF]: http://www.foaf-project.org/
17 [RDF]: http://www.w3.org/RDF/
18 [Semantic Web]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
19 [FOAF+SSL]: http://esw.w3.org/Foaf%2Bssl
20 [PS]: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/the_foaf_ssl_paradigm_shift
21 [SIOC]: http://sioc-project.org/
22 [SR]: http://sioc-project.org/firefox
24 [[!tag tags/blogging]]