ApplicationIdeas

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[edit] Vapourware

  • A service that links:
    • FOAF using del.icio.us, automatically creating foaf entries for del.icio.us subscriptions.
    • Pulls in the del.icio.us rdf subscriptions into foaf
    • Generates link favorite reports based on the number of degrees away, with common keyword forming the basis. -- DougRansom
  • The Technorati of FOAF. The definitive Aggregator that collects all the data smushes it, mixes in syndication and produces quantities of meta-meta data, analysis, search, lists, etc. -- JulianBond
  • A web service that takes two FOAF URLs, and returns the degrees of separation? Must be quick enough to use while someone's browser waits, and authoritative enough to trust. -- DannyAyers on rdfweb-dev: nDegrees?
  • Recommend a friend: list the persons who are friends of your friends, but who are not your friends. List them by number of times they are friends of one of your friends. -- StephaneLeSolliec
  • Use the Foafsphere to search for lost friends. It would be nice to have a way to tag foaf:knows people as lost, so software could easily know that this agent has lost this other agent and is looking for it. -- StephaneLeSolliec (This may be solved by the relationship vocabulary by EricVitiello and IanDavis using the lostContactWith property -- BkDeLong.)
  • A Specialised FOAF Validator. That checked for real issues like pointers to images files and seeAlsos that 404 as well as basic RDF / XML errors. -- JulianBond
  • Donations. Integrate <foaf:tipjar> into ID3 tags for MP3s to allow applications like iTunes popup "Donate to this Artist" buttons. -- GregoryWilliams
  • Rate-My-Foaf. --JulianBond
  • Extend the FoafBot to other messaging systems such as Jabber --JulianBond
  • People who know this person, also know... There should be lots of potential for Ringo/FireFly/Amazon style recommendation systems . --JulianBond
  • A system to take your foaf file and build a Blogroll, RSS feed list and composite RSS feed from the websites of the people you <foaf:knows> -- JulianBond (I implemented RSS feed aggregation in XSLT in spring 2003 -- JamesCarlyle)
  • A web visualisation toolkit using FOAF to differentiate between social relationships and document structure, among other things. --SimonGibbs
  • a FOAF implementation to support emergency and disaster situations. A schema that can be implemented consistently to help structure people information and build consistent parsers that can work with inforation spread on the net.

EmergencyandRelierExperfinder --PaolaDiMaio

  • Active Directory or LDAP exporter -- AndrewMatthews

[edit] Existing Applications to FOAF-ise

  • FOAF import in *-Nuke, phpbb, vbulletin, etc
  • FOAF export in *-Nuke
  • A Movable Type Plugin to create an automated "About Page" with FOAF export. -- JulianBond on rdfweb-dev: Two projects I'd like to see
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer: A IE toolbar that detects foaf files related to the page currently displayed in the browser (via <link rel="meta" ...> tags for example) and gives the user the option to display the info about the author of the page. Would be useful to find out about page author's interests, projects and other works - might help guage how well you trust the info on the page by that author. -- JamesNash
  • Thunderbird: Would be nice for Thunderbird to be able to fetch FOAF documents from URLs of X-FOAF headers and parse them in the same way. -- FrederikSandbergOlesen
  • Build a web of trust relationships defined by the granting of credit between trusted parties. Then payment can be made by passing IOUs along a chain of intermediaries connecting two strangers. -- RyanFugger on geekcredit-users and rdfweb-dev.
  • Open Media Lending Database: Plug-in for exporting info to FOAF data. (Importing from, too?) -- FrederikSandbergOlesen
  • Thunderbird e-mail whitelist or filter (from Inbox to Trusted'Inbox) based on "trusted groups" identified with FOAF information. "I trust the FoafWiki people to email me, I trust the CommunityWiki people to email me, and I trust the people they trust..." FOAF doesn't have a web of trust, but it does define groups of people (and their email addresses) handily. It's a starting point. -- LionKimbro DateTime(2005-11-16T00:34:36Z)

[edit] Works in Progress

  • A spam filter based on your FOAFnet, stolen from "Sorting e-mail friends from foes" -- GeorgeHotelling || Started on this, info in entry. Build a list of SHA1sums/names/nicks, and then run through the data and see if there's a match. .procmailrc? --ChristopherSchmidt

[edit] Synthetic Data Sources

  • FoafInGnutella -- DanielOconnor
  • IRC Bot Foaf Knows generator. Combine FoafBot with PieSpy to generate graphs of Nicks and hence people that appear to know each other. Extend this to Mailing lists, Usenet and other messaging systems --JulianBond
  • SocialGrid to FOAF conversion. FOAF to SocialGrid conversion.

[edit] Implemented Ideas

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