Unfolded Mind

I used to have a cool little program I wrote on the web, called the band name generator. I’d gone through a couple different versions, adding features, and had a lot of fun writing it. Then I lost interest, changed internet service providers, and let it just go away.

It’s coming back. Woo Hoo. I’ve found it’s been a really great way to get myself motivated to learn new ways of doing things. I can take a concept that I’ve thought about in deep detail, and re-imagine it in terms of the latest ideas that happen in web programming.

The next set of “buzzwords du jour” will be “RDF”, “SPARQL”, and “ontology”. That will mean BUPKUS to most of you, but I’m excited.

“FOAF” means “friend of a friend”, for those that don’t know, and if you don’t, just skip this post.

I went on Facebook, and used their FOAF Generator tool, to (what else?) generate some FOAF, which I tweaked a bit by hand, got it to validate at the W3C’s RDF Validator, and the stuck it up at here.

The exciting part, is what others can do with it. See what the FOAF Explorer does.

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