Most Popular Friends of Your Friends

[soybeancoffee9 <nospam at p...>]

--- In rdfweb-dev at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Ley" <jim at j...> wrote:
> <nospam at p...>
> > I didn't know where to write to about this, so I'm sorry if this 
is
> > going into the wrong context.
> 
> This is the perfect place!

Oh, good. Phew. :)


> > How does it work?
> > You input a link to your FOAF file. The application then grabs 
the FOAF
> > files for your friends. So we go and grab those. We now have a 
detailed
> > list of your friends.
> 
> Do you cache the requests, or go out and grab them new every 
time? I
> realise I could just go and read the source, but it's nice to 
talk...

I dont cache them - they are fetched anew on every query, which 
makes it slow, since it also fetches them serially. But I wanted to 
just prove the concept out and show something working before I did 
anything else. You may notice it takes a LONG time to get results 
in some cases (a few minutes sometimes!) - so you should be patient 
when you try it out - go grab a cup of coffee and talk by the water 
cooler for a while and then come back. :)

> > Also, I wrote a plugin for MS Outlook that automatically 
generates FOAF
> > data. I need to figure out how to deploy it, but otherwise it 
could be
> > the beginning of something cool. Let me know if anyone is 
interested in
> > this sort of thing.
> 
> Very, share it all !

Ok, I'll try to get it into a presentable condition within the next 
week.

-Paul Baranowski