FOAF additions

[crschmidt]

Alright, I'm putting together updates to the FOAF information for the next version. I can't make any promises as to when it will go in, live, or even be passed onto a developer - this is a very rough draft of changes that I'm working on making.

Let me know if there's anything I missed.

Additions:

Comments

[mcfnord]

I'm confused about foaf. Is it operational?

Take a look at:

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=fool_in_spirit

compare with

www.livejournal.com/users/fool_in_spirit/data/foaf

Where is _labyrinth? aardvarki? Should they be listed in foaf? They seem to be normal users.

[crschmidt]

fool_in_spirit has probably created a FOAF-knows friends group to only list the users that s/he actually considers him/herself to have a FOAF knows relationship with. You're right in saying that all the journals look like normal journals, but there are a bunch of personal journals in that user's friends list that aren't in the FOAF file.

Anyone who wants to can easily create a list of who they know, simply by following the instructions in a post in this community.

[mcfnord]

ok, i do remember some discussion. i'm going to bank on the belief that 99% of people will never do this. thanks for your reply.

[crschmidt]

I'm not quite sure why you're banking on people not doing exactly what the Spec is designed for.

FOAF isn't designed to include a friends list: It's designed to include a list of people that you think you know. Since we don't have that kind of information, we use the Filter option instead. I think it's a good way of doing things.

What information do you expect to get out of this format? If you want a friends list, you're going to have to wait until we actually offer it, I think - the FOAF information is not designed to fill that role.

[shatterstripes]

One thing that bugs me about these things being auto-generated is multiple journals.

I have three that I use for different purposes. One friend has, um, six, I think. And the fact that I get to read certain ones indicates that she trusts me more than other people; I have access to her middling-locked spiritual ponderings journal, and her very-locked bitchy scream-in-a-hole journal. Similarly, I think it's obvious that I have more inherent trust in the dozen or so people who can read my rarely-updated and very-friends-only sexual fantasies journal.

And I wonder if there should be some way for LJ to say that all of these journals are the same person. And even to say that 'anyone who can read THIS journal is definitely a Trusted Friend, not just Someone-I-Read'. (Though, to be honest, I'm still pretty unclear on exactly what a FOAF file is really supposed to be about. There's some assumption underlying a lot of these Social Networking Tools that I'm just not feeling the shape of

Viewing livejournal profiles at Zopto

[anonymous]

I've tested browsing lj foaf profiles via zopto. Works great. The one thing that I see needing fixing in the future is a standard format for activity logs. For more info see sharedid.com

foaf http://www.zopto.com/