June 2005
Intermediate to advanced
568 pages
24h 7m
English
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Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network #99
Chapter 9, Mapping with Other People
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Map Your Friend-of-a-Friend Network Hack #99
Spider and map your social network on the Web in easy steps.
What’s a Friend of a Friend (FOAF)? Is it the RDF vocabulary for making
statements about people; the shadowy originator of urban myths; or the
myriad of friend-of-a-friend social networking sites, a few of which support
inclusion of FOAF and XFN in XML? For our purposes, we’ll concentrate
on just the first definition
Before this gets too acronym-heavy, let’s explain a few basic principles of
FOAF networks. FOAF is the vocabulary that I use for making statements
about myself, my “digital identity,” and about my social network. In my
FOAF file, I give my name, nicknames, web site addresses, and encrypted
versions of my email addresses. I also publish a list of people I know, using
the FOAF
knows property. This doesn’t distinguish how well I know differ-
ent people or imply any reciprocity about the relationship.
Both the group-blogging services Typepad and LiveJournal export FOAF
information for their users, and there is increasing take-up of it by social net-
working sites such as tribe.net. Not only can you describe and share data
about and via a social network with this information, but for free you get the
benefits of many other semantic web vocabularies to describe events, spatial
locations, and bits ...
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