2010/3/31 Carlo von Loesch <[email protected]>

> Dear Social-discuss, don't look for László Török's original posting.
>  He sent it to me in private by mistake. I'll quote it in full.
>

Thx and apologies.

you should be seeing https://psyced.org/~lynX?lang=en but by mistake
>  it shows the fields in my language, not yours. Bug filed.
>
English is not my native language, can deal with German as well. ;)

> structures in the entire decentralized network. I don't even want my
> publicly accessible profile to be spidered and semanticized. I only
> want my friends to have that level of data quality.
>

Actually, you can define different levels of access control to restrict
access to sensitive content.
There are quite a few ways to do that. One approach is
http://esw.w3.org/WebAccessControl.

 There is no need to go and check out profiles. You already have
> the entire social graph on your laptop and perform computations on
> who might be able to help you with your maths homework or whatever.
> And it's not just some outdated cache. By definition of the protocol
> you always have the current graph with current phone numbers of your
> friends and whatever else they put in there, available on your hard
> disk to build amazing tools upon.
>

Again, it's your choice, there nothing that prevents you to make this data
available in your local RDF store.


> PSYC could just as well be adapted to additionally support RDF and SPARQL.
>
>
Now, your are putting words in my mouth...:)


> The embedded world could use semantically rich protocols that are
> actually fast to parse and process, right?
>
>
Sure, not willing to exclude them, but I would focus on desktop and server
as a first shot as it is a easy win.

Sometimes brilliant ideas have great success, no matter if the
> implementation is good or bad.
>

I'd rather write sg. suboptimal that gains traction, but I might be wrong.

Any thanks for the nice summary. I think it was valuable piece of material
for everyone of us.

L

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