15 million foaf files
Live Journal produces 15 million foaf files Anil Dash told me at the GNoTE conference yesterday.
That's 15 million rdf files ready to be used by a Semantic
Address Book. I am thinking of writing one. Just drag and drop a
foaf url (like
mine) onto such an address book, and presto all the fields
would get filled in including images, geo location information, and
friends. The advantage over a simple vcard? An address book could
poll a foaf file at regular intervals to keep up to date with
changes to your friends foaf files: find out if they have started
writing any new blogs, started some new projects, changed house or
telephone number, moved, married, ... That should be a killer app.
It would also be easy to update one's file: a simple ftp or HTTP
PUT to a web server, and your friends and business partners would
be able to keep in sync with your contact info.
Live Journal produces 15 million foaf files Anil Dash told me at the GNoTE conference yesterday.
That's 15 million rdf files ready to be used by a Semantic
Address Book. I am thinking of writing one. Just drag and drop a
foaf url (like
mine) onto such an address book, and presto all the fields
would get filled in including images, geo location information, and
friends. The advantage over a simple vcard? An address book could
poll a foaf file at regular intervals to keep up to date with
changes to your friends foaf files: find out if they have started
writing any new blogs, started some new projects, changed house or
telephone number, moved, married, ... That should be a killer app.
It would also be easy to update one's file: a simple ftp or HTTP
PUT to a web server, and your friends and business partners would
be able to keep in sync with your contact info.

