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

[Story Henry]

To me it is quite clear why foaf is extreemly useful. I believe the  =

privacy issues can be dealt with quite simply with openid.

For those who want to help out on an opensource project that makes use  =

of foaf, please help out with Beatnik the semantic Address Book.

A picture of it here at the end of this article:

http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/opening_sesame_with_networked_graphs

Henry

On 24 Mar 2008, at 14:45, Dom Ramsey wrote:
>
> On 24 Mar 2008, at 12:13, S=F6ren Auer wrote:
>
>> > 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.
>
> I've yet to see any truly useful application of FOAF, and there's  =

> little point in social networks maintaining a feature that users  =

> don't care about.
>
> In fact, in my experience, most users who understand the  =

> implications of FOAF would rather *not* have it. There are simply  =

> too many privacy concerns and it's way too easy for a site to make  =

> false assertions about its users (just because I added you to my  =

> "favorites" doesn't mean I consider you a friend or even "know" you).
>
> The only other people really benefiting from FOAF are the likes of  =

> Google and ad networks who will use the data to target ads at users.
>
> For social networks - and more importantly, for users, there is  =

> little or no benefit to implementing FOAF.
>
>
> Dom
>
>
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