Let’s Go FOAFing Now, Everybody’s Learning How

I spotted this yesterday at the recently found Pixelcharmer (Check out that keen blog archive taxonomy!). It’s called FOAF, or the ‘friend of a friend’ project. Here’s the lowdown from RDFweb:

The basic idea is pretty simple. If people publish information in the FOAF document format, machines will be able to make use of that information. If those files contain “see also” references to other such documents in the Web, we will have a machine-friendly version of today’s hypertext Web.

Sounds simple and quite nifty, but it only works if people use it. Thus, the FOAF-a-matic, a Javascript application which allows you to create a FOAF. After creating your very own FOAF, just place it on your website where it’s publically accessible and your an official FOAFer.

Stay tuned to this feed for Joshua Kaufman’s FOAF…