Sean Reiser

OK... after a bunch of waiting I have decided to embrace the semantic web and document my social graph. After a ton of debating I have decided to use both XFN and FOAF. There are a number of reasons for this.

I am currently managing most of my social graph in LinkedIN and Facebook (see my Social Networks page for links). Where this is nice; the question of who owns my social graph. The more I use facebook, the more I crave something more open so I can play with it more.

Recently google released a social graph API. I know that as google gets more actively involved things will take off, so now it the time to get working on it.

As stated in this article XFN and FOAF are different approaches to documenting one's social graph and I can see benefits to both.

Being agnostic on the XFN vs FOAF front will give me a little more exposure, which can be interesting.

I am working on building a drupal module that will build my links list on the right as well as build a FOAF module (I'll post in the lab section when I'm done). In the mean time expect to see some changes under the covers and more information soon.