Re: [foaf-protocols] semantic pingback improvement request for foaf

On 17 Apr 2010, at 18:57, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> All,
> 
> In a sense, we should be able to crystallize the following via our 
> Profile Pages:
> 
> 1. Facebook Wall -- part of  Facebook Profile Pages
> 
> 2. Poke (not the greatest term when you factor in cultural diversity, 
> but we do grok the "nudge" action) .

yes. Great ideas.

> We would like to simplify the act of establishing and breaking 
> friendship via a simple "pinger" mechanism where our HTML based Profile 
> Docs should contain something like:
> 
> <link rel="{pingback | poke | friend | something-else}" 
> href="{pingHandlerEndpoint}" ... /> .

Though it may even be better to have just one ping:request relation,
that can be flexible and extensible. Mind you both are possible. We should
decide to get the basic use cases done quickly and working, without attempting
to overly generalise.

> Profile owner can then do whatever with these LINKs e.g., use SPARUL or 
> some other mechanism to create specific assertions (via triples) in an 
> EAV (e.g. RDF) data space (Document, Quad Store, whatever)


Well, this is what has to be specified. The reader of these links needs to 
have some idea of what to do.  

As I pointed out using SPARUL here is going to make it much more difficult to 
integrate with a number of web 2.0 apps. And those are the apps with the best
user interface designers working on them. So we need to start off with very few
requirements (parsing RDF/xml, rdfa) HTTP GET and POST I think are the best.

Web Apps that do have SPARUL access can of course be leverage that in the development
of their own apps to gain development efficiency.


> If we can get "friending" and "unfriending" right, we will have 
> something as viral as twitter for breaking down social network data 
> silos while decentralizing identity via WebIDs.

Absolutely. I can't believe we did not think of doing this before. 
We need {perl, python, scala,...} cgis, so that every one of us foafers can 
quickly add this functionality. I only get about 10 foaf friending requests a year.
This would allow us to start making use of foaf.

As soon as we have those simple proof of concepts we can then add this to tools
such as Elgg, and give the web 2.0 community a reason to enter into the 2010 web3.0
decade :-)

> 
> 
> We are close to a real tipping point here, just got to keep the user 
> aspect as simple as possible.

yes. Also keeping the developer aspect is important. HTML forms marked up with
RDF, simple things like that is something devs can understand quickly. 

> Twitter and Facebook are more important than Wordpress re. Social 
> Networking IMHO.

We need to get back to the philosophy of blogging that Wordpress and co got so 
right though: distributed networks. So helping workdpress make use of their foaf like
this could also be a great use case.

Henry

> Links:
> 
> 1. 
> http://www.slideshare.net/guest1222bdb/mary-meeker-april-2010-internet-trends  
> -- some nice market research

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