You don't have to buy the whole semantic web story to use or implement FOAF.
I agree that it is a very important technology that we need to look at. But there is one problem that Linked In has solved that I do not know how to solve in FOAF-world and that is spam control. I am absolutely not saying that because I want to dump on FOAF, its because that is a problem that has to be solved if FOAF can genuinely replace what I get from LinkedIn and at the moment I can't see any way I can make that work without central mediation that I find really convincing. On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Story Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7 Jun 2010, at 18:42, Steven Livingstone-Perez wrote: > >> The idea in principal appeals but a lot seems to be dependent on browser >> vendor support & OpenID in the browser should really have been (and should >> still be [1]) a no brainer for the browser vendors - I anticipate the same >> level of "uptake" by them for this. > > It already works in the browser, and has for years. The problem is that most > people here don't want to look at the solution, because of fear of the > semantic web it seems, or some such (not sure). > > You can see it working in this home made video > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iZPJBpI2Po&feature=player_embedded > > (I welcome people coming up with better videos) > The protocol is detailed here: > > http://esw.w3.org/Foaf+ssl > > There are some small browser improvements that could be made, though it > would not take long to convince some of the browsers vendors to make them. > > Henry > >> >> >> In short, until we can get the browsers to put social as a first class >> citizen (and look how long universal OpenSearch support in the browsers >> took) we have a battle. > > _______________________________________________ > specs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/ _______________________________________________ specs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs
