[foaf-dev] Re: Social Networks that use FOAF

[Sören Auer]

 > Guess what. Tribe.net turned off FOAF completely.

To me it is pretty obvious why (larger) social networks are not very 
interested in FOAF - they are evaluated, gain users and (advertising) 
revenues by page views and consequently are not eager to give out the 
data e.g. as FOAF.

If we want to increase the popularity of FOAF we should focus on 
increasing FOAF support in Web apps (such as Drupal, Typos3, Lifetype, 
PhpBB etc.), which drive the Web today.

Most of you have probably seen it already, but I want to point again on 
Triplify [1], which is a small plugin for Web applications, which 
reveals the content of a relational DB backend as RDF, JSON and Linked 
Data. The Triplify configurations for Wordpress, WackoWiki and Drupal 
already heavily use FOAF ;-)

Happy easer egg hunt

Sören

[1] http://Triplify.org


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