rullzer

As some of you might have guessed I am quite fond of social media. Thus yesterday (and this morning) I decided to add two more social media to the list The first is libre.fm, an alternative for last.fm but completely open and nice WebID integration! It is a lot less complete and has less features than last.fm but the I am just a sucker for open software and the change to help build an open music library is awesome!

I haven’t looked into it yet but it should be a fairly simple task to link from my foaf.rdf to my libre.fm rdf file.

Thanks to mpdscribble it is only 4 lines to scrobble to both last.fm and libre.fm!

The other more open project of the week is status.net. Open microblogging, and it is the software behind identi.ca. I have a personal setup which can also be used by the rest of the family (if they ever choce to) but which can communicate fine with other status.net instances.

A bridge to twitter has been setup so I can keep using that but just use my status.net clients. And one of the best features is that I can post and read posts via XMPP (Jabber)!.

Some time ago I learned about the foaf-project, I did like the project back then but I never took the time to write my own foaf.rdf. Well now it is created. Very basic but I hope it will be extended soon.

Since my recent social network activity the step to foaf was, in my eyes, also a logical one. But it does seem that a lot more people have facebook than foaf….

One of the nice things about foaf, if you are interested in semantic web stuff, is that it is in constant development there are discussions on the mailing list about how to structure the data etc or why things should change. This makes it a very dynamic project.

As you can see I do not yet have any foaf:knows elements in my foaf.rdf but lets hope that soon will change so a semantic network can span around me.