Continuing a week spent tinkering with FOAF utilities, I've just posted a new one that will automatically generate a basic FOAF file for you if you have an existing Advogato profile. Advogato to FOAF To use the utility all you need to supply is your nick name and email address. The latter is used as … Continue reading Got Advogato? Get FOAF! →

Sean McGrath was recently looking for a tool that would "coalesce various standalone feeds into, aggregated feeds so that my client side aggregator sees it as a single feed" which seems like a perfectly reasonable request. And it's one of many useful features that server-side aggregators could be doing. Others include normalising feeds so they … Continue reading Synthetic RSS Feeds and FOAF →

The title says it all. The Japanese version of the FOAF-a-Matic was made possible by the kind efforts of Masahide Kanzaki. Big thanks to Masahide for his swift turn-around of the translation. Masahide has also created a Japanese introduction to FOAF. Danny has links to other recent FOAF activities

As I mentioned recently I'd like to get the FOAF-a-Matic translated into other languages. The aim is to make the creation of FOAF files as easy as possible for as many people as possible. While the app doesn't support all of the various properties that can be added to a FOAF document, I think it … Continue reading Translating the FOAF-a-Matic →

I've been hacking on the FOAF-a-Matic Mark 2 again this week after some gentle (and much needed) prodding from Phil Wilson who got so fed up with waiting for me to release another version, he went ahead and did some work on the code himself. (And why not, its Public Domain after all). So during … Continue reading FOAF-a-Matic Progress Update →

Norm Walsh emailed me to note that the "refer a friend" link from the FOAF-a-Matic is broken. D'oh! It's pretty simple, so thought I'd jot it down here. Basically the javascript code will read three additional parameters in the URL: name -- your full name email -- your email seealso -- location of your FOAF … Continue reading Refer a Friend to FOAF-a-Matic →

I came across RDF vs XML Illustrated via both Dave Beckett's Journal and the RDF IG IRC Scratchpad today. And its brought forward a question I've been meaning to ask for a couple of weeks now. Take a look at the bottom right of the diagram (e.g. the JPEG version it says: Some projects are … Continue reading When to use RDF? →

Yesterday was one of those rare occasions when I get to unshackle myself from my desk here at Ingenta and get out into the Real World and meet Real People. Yesterday's trip was to HP Labs in Bristol where I got the opportunity to meet with Steve Cayzer and Paul Shabajee about the Semantic Blogging … Continue reading Semantic Blogging: A Day Out →