The foaf-a-matic web site you visited in exercise 6.3a suggests that you can post the foaf.rdf code generated onto your website somewhere where it is publically accessible. It says that if you do, then programs that utilise the foaf RDF may readily access it. As a post to your blog, labeled ‘Week 6 Social Graph’ discuss why you might or why you might not make such a foaf file available to the world at large?
The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.
Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related". He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward.
For me, I might not want to make such a foaf file available to the world at large. One problem is that currently we need to have different log ins for different social networks. Another issue is portability and ownership of an individual's information, explicitly and implicitly revealed while using social networks. As was recently asserted in the Social Bill Of Rights and as has been advocated for a while by Attention Trust Principles, most of users want to own their personal information - including their chunk of the Social Graph. Therefore, making such a foaf file to the world at large is not a ideal concern.
However, if making a foaf to the world within the standard amount it will be helpful. For example, in some social media site Facebook and Myspace, users can find more mutual friends easily if they have some related information. However users will get annoyed if too many names appear on the their mutual friends list which are actually not really related to whom they really want to meet.
Reference:
http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=199604040097119
For me, I might not want to make such a foaf file available to the world at large. One problem is that currently we need to have different log ins for different social networks. Another issue is portability and ownership of an individual's information, explicitly and implicitly revealed while using social networks. As was recently asserted in the Social Bill Of Rights and as has been advocated for a while by Attention Trust Principles, most of users want to own their personal information - including their chunk of the Social Graph. Therefore, making such a foaf file to the world at large is not a ideal concern.
However, if making a foaf to the world within the standard amount it will be helpful. For example, in some social media site Facebook and Myspace, users can find more mutual friends easily if they have some related information. However users will get annoyed if too many names appear on the their mutual friends list which are actually not really related to whom they really want to meet.
Reference:
http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=199604040097119
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