The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

I decided to spend 5 minutes yesterday putting together a FOAF document for myself. I have seen a variety of personal URIs out there, but ended up going with Elias‘ pattern: http://fancygonzo.net/who#rob. I also went over to the FOAF Project and added my new FOAF document to their Bullitin Board so that FOAF-aware programs can find me.

One potential boon for the semantic web and common vocabularies like FOAF is that it might make updating all of my social networking profiles really easy. Imagine if MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, The Facebook, Orkut, etc., would accept a FOAF document, or, better yet, a URL to an ATOM feed that contains versions of your FOAF document, and thus would update themselves whenever you updated your FOAF profile. That way, you wouldn’t get bothered about going to every single profile you’ve ever made anywhere on the web even though you never use them anymore to change your relationships status when, say, you get engaged ;-).

So now I just have to dig back into the CViT RDF generation code we have and update whatever the older URI I was using for myself…