Friending On The Social Web

Andrei Vlad Sambra (1, 2, 3) , Henry Story (4)

1 SAMOVAR - Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 TSP - RST - Département Réseaux et Services de Télécommunications
4 Apache Design Solutions

FOAF profiles bind together the most widely deployed distributed Social Network in existence, despite the lack of deployed ways to automate the creation of new friending relations. A similar problem appeared on the world wide distributed social conversation that is the blogosphere, where users were keen to keep track of articles mentioning ones they posted. A number of solutions were developed and widely deployed. We describe these solutions here and show how they can be extended to the social web, to the benefit of all, in a light, easy to use and Web Architecture friendly manner.

Domaines: Ordinateur et société [cs.CY]

Andrei Vlad Sambra, Henry Story. Friending On The Social Web. W3C's Federated Social Web 2011, Jun 2011, Berlin, Germany. ⟨hal-00745427⟩