FOAF-a-Matic in Korean; Fun With Statistics

Thanks to the kind efforts of Minsu Jang the FOAF-a-Matic is now available in Korean. I'm really pleased. With the tool now available in ten languages I thought it might be fun to estimate what the potential user base might now be. With a bit of googling I found this localization guide. The statistics include … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic in Korean; Fun With Statistics →

Connect The Dots

Let's see... Whilst pointing out a few cool things Edd mentions Planet Gnome and Monologue. Both of these are community sites formed from aggregating GNOME and Mono developers blogs; James Strachan announces the new hausmates feeds. Java Blogs we already know about, and similarly the blogs on Java.net; Simon Willison notes a move to build … Continue reading Connect The Dots →

FOAF-a-Matic In Italian

Thanks to the efforts of Fabrizio Tarizzo the FOAF-a-Matic is now available in Italian. That brings the total up to 9 different languages. Thanks Fabrizio!

Creating and influencing social networks

My favourite magazine, New Scientist has two interesting social networking related stories this week. The first, "Intelligent tags are breaking the ice" describes the nTag (a "a complete event communications system for forward-thinking business and social gatherings" according to the marketing blurb"). It's basically a simple PDA type device that stores your personal data, including … Continue reading Creating and influencing social networks →

FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 beta-2

It's now been 10 months since I released the first beta of the FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2. An embarrassingly long time indeed, so I thought it was high time that I produced a second beta for you all to play with. I've not been working on this solidly for 10 months and when you take a … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 beta-2 →

MusicBrainz Java API beta-1

I've just uploaded the beta-1 of my shiny new Java API onto the MusicBrainz RDF web service. If you're not familiar with MusicBrainz, it's similar to CDDB: it stores lists of artists, albums and tracks that can be used to add metadata to your music collection. Aaron Swartz wrote a nice article on it a … Continue reading MusicBrainz Java API beta-1 →

BloggerCon FOAF

Dave Winer has been suggesting that attendees to BloggerCon 2003 go and register on the BloggerCon blog roll Seeing at the list of attendees is available in OPML and I'd already processed a similar format for MS Bloggers yesterday I thought that I'd do the same thing. Here's the stylesheet. Deciding to go one better … Continue reading BloggerCon FOAF →

MS Bloggers in FOAF; Java Bloggers Next?

Dan Brickley has written up a note on the FOAF Wiki about using the foaf:weblog property, pointing to an OPML listing of Microsoft bloggers. I wrote a little XSLT stylesheet to do this conversion automatically. And here are some sample results. See the Wiki page for more details. Interestingly Matt Biddulph's Chumpologica accepts a very … Continue reading MS Bloggers in FOAF; Java Bloggers Next? →

6 Degrees of Mr Benn

As if by magic...Mr Benn now has a FOAF file and he's already in foafnaut. For example you can discover him by starting from me and clicking through to danbri who, in true Bob Hoskins style, is acting as a bridge between the real and 'toon worlds. Mr Benn is always on the look out … Continue reading 6 Degrees of Mr Benn →

RDF Forms

Mark Baker has posted the first draft of RDF Forms: "The Semantic Web is currently missing two key features of the hypermedia application model which are prevalent on the browser based Web; the ability to declare the intent to receive data for processing, and the ability to use data as arguments in the client-side construction … Continue reading RDF Forms →