CVS Wants to Be Your Best Friend (Really)

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1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web

1st Workshop on Friend of a Friend,
Social Networking and the Semantic Web 06/21/2004 01:50 PM

Call for papers, come for the party or just come and hang out.

You can't be a decent standard if you don't have a conference.

Topics

The FOAF (Friend of a Friend) project explores a unique combination of themes from social networking, search engines, knowledge representation and software development. FOAF was designed as a practical experiment that would highlight the technical, social and business challenges raised by the next generation of "Semantic" Web technology. Over the past few years, the FOAF developer community has been working on standards-based techniques for publishing and harvesting machine-readable descriptions of people, the links between them, and the things they create and do. The working assumption of the project is that such techniques will underpin the deployment of the next generation of Web technology, W3C's "Semantic Web". The FOAF project was created in the expectation that these machine-readable descriptions will grow, as the Semantic Web platform matures, to cover companies, organisations, documents, groups, products, file sharing and many other aspects of life, both online and off. The time has come to evaluate these assumptions in the context of the opportunities and challenges presented by the rise of FOAF and the Semantic Web.

Social networking is a recent topic gaining much interest and publicity. Social networking sites are community sites where users can maintain an online network of friends or associates for social or business purposes: whether looking for a job, reconnecting with old friends, moving to a new area, or dating. Most of these sites are based on a centralised architecture: all users' descriptions are stored in one big database. There is, however, growing user and business interest in portability between such sites, and for sophisticated "single sign-on" mechanisms that reduce the need for data re-entry, while allowing users to manifest different aspects of themselves in different contexts. FOAF-based import/export allows such sites to address user demand for control of "their" data; however, many deployment, privacy, authentication and engineering issues have not yet been fully explored. To what extent do mechanisms such as FOAF change the environment they attempt to describe? How can the visibility of personal data be restricted to certain audiences? How can businesses make money when their customers can migrate to new services with increased ease?

This workshop on FOAF, social networking and the Semantic Web provides a first chance to discuss the unusual combination of perspectives - academic and scientific, engineering, social, legal and business - drawn together by these trends. The workshop aims to bring together for the first time researchers interested in the effects, analysis and application of social networks on the (Semantic) Web as well as practitioners building applications and infrastructure. The workshop will also try to give a snapshot of current developments, as well as setting a roadmap for the future of both FOAF and social networking - especially in the context of the Semantic Web.

Topics of interest for full papers include, but are not limited to the following:

* Social network metadata standards
* Trust issues in social networks
* Profiles of FOAF, subsets, mapping to other vocabularies and formats
* Federated digital identity, single sign-on (decentralized identity management)
* Business models for the Semantic Web (life after banner advertisements)
* Integration with desktop and mobile applications (chat, IM, P2P, Bluetooth, address books, RSS/Atom)
* Privacy, etiquette and best practice issues for aggregators
* Infrastructure for social networking
* Applications of online social networking
* Knowledge management with social networks
* Mathematical analysis of social networks
* Exchange of social network information
* Applications of online social networks
* Shared annotations
* Use of digital signatures and encryption with RDF/XML
* RDF-based search engines, data harvesting and syndication
* GUIs (browsers, editors) for FOAF and Semantic Web data
* Formalisms that address practical problems of heterogenous changing data
* Pragmatics of sharing data schemas across subtly different datasets

[it's the danbri and Libby show!]

Your friend: the FBI

Your friend: the FBI 04/15/2004 11:36 AM

Thoughts for Tax Day:  A friend sent t his article on various rules that restrict the U.S. government from investigating terrorists.  The implication of the article is that we'd all be better off if the CIA and the FBI could work unfettered.  Certainly the widows and orphans of September 11th would be better off.  Yet our government has a history of pouring tremendous amounts of effort in the wrong areas, often resulting in months or years of misery for innocent people.  One of the more humorous recent examples is Booker Prize winner Ian McEwan's detain ment at the Vancouver airport.  We want the Federales to be strong enough to hunt down Saudi terrorists in flight schools but sufficiently weak that we can throw them off our own backs when necessary.

[As noted on Prairie Home Companion on Saturday, if you're sending a check to the IRS this year put a couple of extra stamps on the envelope because it's going all the way to Iraq.]

my friend my friend, my friend ...

my friend my friend, my friend ... 09/02/2004 11:38 AM
smile, YOU'VE JUST BEEN KICKED IN THE NUTS!

IM a Friend

IM a Friend 04/14/2005 02:03 AM

Feature Creep

“Those of you who read this site via RSS/Atom/LiveJournal syndication may have missed our latest site feature, ‘IM to a friend’.

As of this last Friday, there's a tiny AIM icon next to the title of each entry. When it's clicked on, most AIM clients should give you a new message window containing the URL of the entry you'd like to share with a friend. After you enter their screen name and send the message, feel free to chat about what you've sent their way. It works transparently and is loads easier than a standard copy and paste.

Yeah, we're trying to harbor conversation about our site and drive our traffic up. We're also trying to make sending URLs to friends a bit easier. We stole the idea from our friends at blogging.la….

Note: Trillian doesn't seem to install handlers for ‘aim:‘ links. If you run Trillian and click on the link, there's a good chance that nothing will happen. iChat and the official AIM client seem to be all good tho. Sorry Trillian users.” [Preshrunk]

Intere sting idea for those libraries exploring IM. Might be a nice reverse idea on the idea of creating IM interfaces into the catalog, too.

Another New Friend for Microsoft

Another New Friend for Microsoft 05/21/2004 06:59 PM
Business Week May 21 2004 11:12PM GMT

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth

Want a friend? Use Bluetooth 06/25/2004 07:26 AM
Economictimes Jun 25 2004 10:56AM GMT

Friend of research?

Friend of research? 06/21/2004 10:13 PM
USA Today Jun 22 2004 2:47AM GMT

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend?

Could iPod Be Your Next Best Friend? 03/28/2005 10:05 AM

It's called anthropomorphizing, giving an inaminate object a human personality. By Heather Svokos, Knight Ridder News Service

Our friend eloped!

Our friend eloped! 12/28/2004 09:25 AM
She ran off with a guy we don't really like, and told her family but not her friends!

Internet more friend than foe

Internet more friend than foe 07/11/2004 06:49 AM
Pittsburghlive.com - Sun Jul 11, 08:25 am GMT

New IE bug may be scammers best friend

New IE bug may be scammers best friend 12/10/2003 01:13 AM
ZDNet Australia Dec 10 2003 0:24AM ET

Be my friend? Only on my turf.

Be my friend? Only on my turf. 07/14/2004 04:53 PM
Release 1.0 editor Esther Dyson examines the promise--and the confusion--around social networks.

Be my friend? Only on my turf

Be my friend? Only on my turf 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:22PM GMT

mod_gzip is your friend. Really

mod_gzip is your friend. Really 02/18/2004 01:34 PM
As is whatever the module for Apache 2.0 is. I finally broke down and snagged an RSS content aggregator thingie (which, in addition to confirming my feelings that polling for RSS feeds sucks more than Cygnus X-1, now makes me want RSS feeds on places that don't have them. EurekAlert and The New Scientist spring to mind) since I've got enough places I go infrequently that I was starting to lose track of which ones I'd been to lately and which I hadn't. 'Tis keen, though I'd like to be able to twiddle more stuff than the tool allows. No...

Well, not *that* kind of a friend

Well, not *that* kind of a friend 01/23/2004 02:23 PM
Cheap i18n fun for the morning (emphasises mine):

I'm absolutely sure this will help people come together... For any non-finnish speakers out there, "orkut" is a common slang term for "orgasm". "Sain orkut" = "I had an orgasm". Well picked site name, indeed. It's even affiliated with Google :-).

ROTFLMAO!

A friend in need...for only $5 a month

A friend in need...for only $5 a month 09/06/2004 03:34 AM
ZDNet Australia Sep 6 2004 7:53AM GMT

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend

MySQL.com: A New Look for an Old Friend 12/16/2002 09:08 AM

strtotime(); Is My Friend

strtotime(); Is My Friend 11/20/2002 10:40 AM
Made a quick php script went through and converted my post dates to Unix time stamps. Much fun was had by all.

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe

On the Web, anonymity is a friend -- and
a foe 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
SiliconValley.com Feb 22 2004 11:38AM GMT

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend

ASPjar Tell-a-Friend 03/17/2005 03:53 AM
farhad koosha (Mar 15 2005)

Our Friend, The Meter

Our Friend, The Meter 06/23/2004 01:16 AM

Friend, good! Fire, bad!

Friend, good! Fire, bad! 05/12/2004 09:43 PM
James Lileks .. Lileks

lileks.com/bleats/archive/04/0504/051204.html
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I Need A Security Solution... For A
Friend

I Need A Security Solution... For A
Friend 05/04/2004 03:09 PM
For years, the FBI has been trying to convince companies to tell them when they've been maliciously hacked in order to better respond and deal with troublesome behavior. Companies, however, are usually afraid to ever admit to anyone that they've had any computer security problems whatsoever - which means that those fighting against these attacks have much less info in how to stop them. While this article doesn't necessarily offer any solutions, it does point out that this is a serious (and growing) problem. The end result, though, is that IT representatives from companies at security trade shows all deny they have problems... but are all desperately looking for solutions. This brings up, by the way, the fact that our server seems to have been getting hammered this morning from some unknown source. You may have noticed a bit of downtime or slowness. Hopefully we've got it under control.

Raped by Internet friend

Raped by Internet friend 04/17/2004 02:23 AM
Malay Mail Apr 17 2004 5:48AM GMT

Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Answers

Friend or Foe? A Digital Dog Tag Answers 04/15/2004 06:30 AM
Despite precautions, soldiers continue to be killed by "friendly" fire. New technologies, however, may prevent such mistakes.

Computers: Friend or foe to science?

Computers: Friend or foe to science? 08/31/2004 02:32 AM
USA Today Aug 31 2004 6:30AM GMT

Gmail invite available to a friend

Gmail invite available to a friend 06/10/2004 01:25 AM
If any of my online friends haven't received an Gmail invite and would like one, I have one to give away -- just send me an email. First come first served, friends or regular readers only. I'm not interested in selling it. I'm not particularly wowed by the service, but maybe you are as curious as I was to see what all the fuss is about....

Wanted: New Friend; Must Have Bluetooth

Wanted: New Friend; Must Have Bluetooth 06/23/2004 10:49 AM

Computers are a comedian's best friend

Computers are a comedian's best friend 08/21/2004 08:38 PM
PA News via The Scotsman Online Aug 22 2004 0:27AM GMT

Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe?

Cloning Kerry's Friend or Foe? 08/18/2004 05:00 AM
Presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry favors therapeutic cloning. If that sounds shocking, the Republicans don't seem to mind. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Computers: Scientific Friend or Foe?

Computers: Scientific Friend or Foe? 09/08/2004 06:39 AM
Computers: Scientific Friend or Foe? By Dan Vergano, USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2004-08-30-research-an d-puters_x.htm


It's an old joke among techie types: To err is human. To really screw up, you need a computer. Now scientists are learning that lesson, too. But they don't think it's funny. As computers extend their reach into the research laboratory, they are making possible new kinds of science, but they're also creating pitfalls along the way. Some computer programs are causing problems on their own, wreaking unexpected havoc with scientific data. In other cases, scientists are using computers — either on purpose or out of ignorance — to deceive.

Is Google the hacker's best friend

Is Google the hacker's best friend 07/30/2004 10:42 PM

Booksellers Friend - BFWare

Booksellers Friend - BFWare 09/13/2004 02:25 PM
Kick Off

Google: Hacker's Best Friend?

Google: Hacker's Best Friend? 12/24/2004 12:15 PM
Santy's not such a nice guy, and Google was his elf.

Acusphere Makes a Friend

Acusphere Makes a Friend 07/07/2004 04:38 PM
The struggling specialty pharmaceutical company has shown an ability to survive, which may serve it well.

Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth

Wanted: New Friend, Must Have Bluetooth 06/23/2004 11:07 AM
Boston Globe Jun 23 2004 2:36PM GMT

A molecular biologist's best friend

A molecular biologist's best friend 06/16/2004 09:16 PM
Just when you think all government endeavors are going to hell, the National Center for Biotechnology Information comes to the rescue (well, has been coming to the scientist near you since 1988). For free, search everything from dna sequences in organisms where the genome is known to searching known Mendelian inheritances for Homo Sapiens (example here). Also of much use and interest is PudMed< /a> with the ability to search and read virtually any established molecular biology paper.

Patriot missile: friend or foe?

Patriot missile: friend or foe? 05/20/2004 08:45 AM
RAF Tornado downed, questions unanswered

Microsoft Apple's best friend?

Microsoft Apple's best friend? 01/08/2004 07:17 PM
In an article appearing on Wired today, Leander Kahney talks about the Macintosh's 20 year history and about one company in particular that has "stuck by Apple through thick and thin" -- Microsoft...
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