On 3 February 2010 15:27, Story Henry <henry.story@bblfish.net> wrote: > On 3 Feb 2010, at 14:42, Story Henry wrote: > > >> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/SocialWebFrameworks > > > > > [[ > The Social Web User is a unique individual (unique DNA, one person). > ]] > > I think you should add an icon for a robot, for a company or organization > (which can act), for a group of people too... Not all agents are going to be > DNA based. > TimBL talks about exactly this concept at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foe7CSRVTwI > > [[ > Distributed Property: > A profile property that is located and managed by (or "informed" and > updated by) a service provider. > ]] > > You may as well think of distributed properties in terms of the documents > on which those are written. Documents are served up by different services: > you can't get more basic than that. Every architecture will have that. > > This is going back to the core of philosophy of meaning. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_act > > We can think here in terms of document acts if you want. > > A distributed property is one that appears on a document served by some > other service. > > So Agent A says "Joe's age is 21". > > Agent B believes that. > > And so Agent B allows agent Joe access to his wine collection. > > The notion of a distributed property as such does not really make sense. > But we all understand what it means to rely on someone else for information. > > Henry > > > > > > >
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