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FOAF Architecture Specification

About

A decentralized unified messaging and data exchange project based on FOAF profiles.

Goals

• Decentralized Architecture
  
• Human Client (appropriate visualization, e.g. friends as avatars on desktop)
  

Usecases (Protocol and API)

• Find/Search a friend
• Invite a friend
• Authenticate (in order to see the details of a friend's profile)
• Register a new identity
• Become trusted
• Hand over a file to a friend
• Talk to a friend
• Leave a message
• Share Clipboard

Source Code

Server: http://raw.github.com/wyona/yanel/contributions/realms/foaf/ (U:anonymous, P:anonymous)

Client: No client yet.

Misc

• About FOAF and FOAF Specification
• The Soylent Project
• Parakey (also see http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/nov06/4696, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parakey)
• Combots
• Example of a possible Provider Server: Tabber (also see http://openfriendformat.com/)
  
• About Open Social Networks: http://blogs.sun.com/bblfish/entry/social_networking_3_0
• Find a Friend: http://foaf.wyona.org
• OpenSocial API: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/
• http://webcamp.org/SocialNetworkPortability
• http://bradfitz.com/social-graph-problem/
• http://www.idealog.us/2007/10/breaking-open-f.html resp. open source social networking architecture
• DNS for people

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