[rdfweb-dev] PLINK

[Dom Ramsey]

In message <000501c3d465$75999250$6e117ad5 at vicsoft.co.uk>, Victor 
Lindesay <victor at vicsoft.co.uk> writes
>Hi Dom,
>
>> Maybe I'll learn something about what this FOAF thing is too. :)
>
>Actually ... that's what we wanted to ask you ;-)

No point in asking me. :)

PLINK is the first thing I've ever done with RDF - I hadn't even looked 
at it until a month ago. And I'm not a programmer either, so everything 
I do is a hack. Help! :)

My next major issues with regards to PLINK are:

1. Sorting out the best way to "merge" profiles which are obviously the 
same person.

2. Some form of authentication. I want to keep this as simple as 
possible, so I may resort to having some form of log-in system with a 
verified email address, then presenting the user with any information I 
have on them and giving them an option to say "yes this is true" or "no, 
ignore this information".

Definitely open to ideas on this though, keeping in mind that the whole 
point of PLINK is to provide a fun, non-technical interface to FOAF.

3. General security - I'd like to limit (as much as possible) the damage 
that could be done by malicious/fake FOAF files.


I'm also going to be adding lots of new stuff related to geographic 
location shortly - particularly now that Julian has implemented lat/long 
info on Ecademy.

I already have the capability to generate town/city/state/country from 
latitude & longitude, as well as providing local news headlines for 
anywhere in the world (via my local-news.net project) and weather 
forecasts.

Fun stuff, mainly, as that's the kind of site that *I* would like.

Dom
(Currently browsing through Ecademy/Ryze/Friendstar/Faceparty etc. for 
ideas...)  :)