[rdfweb-dev] Fifty Words

[Julian Bond]

Dan Brickley <danbri at w3.org> wrote:
>Sounds like a nice idea. Do you have some examples, I'm curious...?

Two examples.

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?op=view&id=1
CTO, wifi, web services, xml, nerd, geek, motorcycle, scooter, scifi, 
Cambridge, engineering, open source, php, de-centralization, chillout, 
science fiction, grateful dead, physics, cycling, cyberpunk, 
illuminatus, coyote, quantum

http://www.ecademy.com/account.php?op=view&id=8
Solihull, Maths, History, Books, Retail, Sales, Dorking, Tennis, Scout, 
Walking, Croydon, Finance, Marketing, Aquarius, London, Amstrad, 
Microsoft, Dell, Wimbledon, Database, Urban Science, Farnham, Married, 
Children, Football, AKQA, Internet, Debis, BT, CommerceOne, Author, 
Ecademy, Speaker, Non-Executive Director, Dogs, Hotels, Movies, 
Networking, Harley-Davidson, Cigars, Catholic, Terminator2, Relentless, 
Views, Meet Joe Black, Quest4Fire, WeePen, French Chateaux, Mountains, 
Golf, Randomness

The power comes from using them as search terms. I've got a thing inside 
Ecademy that let's you find "people like this" based on the strength of 
the match using MySQL's fulltext index.

As you can see they're like HTML's <meta name="keywords" content="" for 
people. Perhaps foaf:keywords ?

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