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FOAF is a way to describe yourself -- your name, email address, and the people you're friends with -- using XML and RDF. This allows software to process these descriptions, perhaps as part of an automated search engine, to discover information about your

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

[still being updated].."This specification is an evolving document. The bulk of this document is now generated by combining the RDFS/OWL machine-readable FOAF ontology with a set of per-term documents. The remaining sections require serious attention; we

the giant social network site.. adding new inthebox featuresall the time eg grouper p2p filesharing, classifieds, shout-outs, slideshows...

a tad obsolete but a classic SVG example; explore graphs of knows-ness (do not think co-depiction everworked).."Enter a persons in the foaf world email address (e.g. libby.miller@bristol.ac.uk, or jim@jibbering.com etc.) and then explore who they know, an

[early description of project, +links].."Edd Dumbill explores an XML and RDF application known as Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF). FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information syst

"Friendster has tumbled in popularity as other networks such as MySpace have grown. But in its hunt for new members, Friendster has dusted off my recommendations and reissued them to my friends. Who says I'd want to recommend Friendster now? And who says

Amber Thomas and Andrew Rothery explore how online repositories are being used to store and share e-learning content, and show how taking the user perspective might challenge the emerging approaches to repository development.

This seminar aims to disseminate the work of 4 of the E-Learning Framework reference model projects, namely LADIE, FREMA, XCRI and COVARM. The reference models will be related to ELF toolkit and a demonstrator projects, and to the EU UNFOLD project which

"At Odeo, we've started to think beyond the radio paradigm that dominates today...I call these people "casual content creators." It's not just that they're amateur or part of the great, unwashed, Long Tail. It's that they're playing a different game.

Our goals for the first phase, Paperbag (we have to wear paperbags over our heads since we're so embarassed to let these bugs out into the wild), mostly involve stability, security and making things works the way they are supposed to. The second phase, Co

We are trying really hard to make some architectural improvements in the short term. For example, we are refactoring our RSS service to improve performace - this should dramatically enhance your feed viewing pleasure. Beyond that, we are busy improving m

[alpha?] Getting your own KickRSS feed is simple: enter a feed name, your email address, and a password twice. Click on "Create Feed", and you're done! Once you've done this, you'll need to use the Modify box to log in and add individual feeds to your Kic

[very featureful].."Xinha (pronounced like the Warrior Princess) began as a stop-gap fork of the InteractiveTools.Com htmlArea WYSIWYG editor, but due to popular demand it has spawned into Xinha, a generally better version of htmlArea version 3, with a mu

"This is an informational document. Although technical in nature, it attempts to make the concepts involved understandable and applicable in real-world situations. Because of this, some aspects of the material are simplified or omitted, for the sake of cl

Please post your questions as soon as you can. I may have a short runway before recording... Chris Messina and I are working out the timing for a recording on Flock, the not-so-Cocoa project you've likely been reading about and possibly beta testing. Chr

AWIS provides data feeds to developers who wish to incorporate Alexa data into their site or service. In your travels you may have noticed Alexa data popping up in unexpected places across the Web -- on AdBrite, before you buy an ad you can see the seller

When students post their faces, personal diaries and gossip on Web sites like Myspace.com and Xanga.com, it is not simply harmless teen fun, according to one New Jersey Catholic school principal.

A Personal Blink is an online space where you share your "Wisdom" on anything that interests you. Unlike a blog, you can automatically add external news, pics, videos & more right into your Blink. It's like your own multi-media publication! Plus it's easy

not sure what this is - excentric self-pitch - could be big wiki-wami/squidoo-ish... also useful services for rss rehosting / merge + wikipedia rss + social bookmarks with discussion?

[nice styling options even!] Their are 4 simple steps to convert a feed: 1. Find a Feed; 2. Enter Feed URL into Feed Convertor; 3. Customize Feed Features (optional); and 4. Generate Javascript to place on your site or blog. It's real easy so lets get sta

Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web services API to submit tasks to

[cool idea - v like ask-a of old; so-named from the famous fake automaton; site too busy currently].. "HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza p

"These programs would combine their already available systems of searching books online with a commercial component that could revolutionize the way that people read books. The idea is to do for books what Apple has done for music, allowing readers to buy

"This is a great step forward and will hopefully increase the adoption of Creative Commons (CC). On the other hand, I don't see CC mentioned on the page and having only two choices is limiting, considering the various other licenses that people are likely

Your email address is your account. You will receive a link to set up & send your first Say-So. Use your Say-So Manager to edit, moderate & delete your Say-Sos.

Nate Steiner tells me that Twinsparc has launched Say-So, a free-form discussion generating tool. They have more details about how it works here. Nate says "The main focus of the tool (and reason for making it) is to allow anyone to gather feedback on an

a bit academic for most end-users, but useful for academics who need familiarisation with history and concepts

by deputy head of IT division, Lithuanian Labour Exchange.. insight into the process they adopted for choosing an open source Content Management System...The first investigations into selecting a CMS began early on in the summer of 2004. At that time we d