a schema:WebPage, schema:BlogPosting; rdfs:label "Giant Global Graph - Blog Post by TimBL"; schema:about ; dcterms:subject ; foaf:primaryTopic ; foaf:maker ; schema:creator ; dcterms:created "2007-11-21T23:45:18-05:00"^^xsd:dateTime ; foaf:topic , , , ; rdfs:comment """So The Graph word has been creeping in. BradFitz talks of the Social Graph as does Alex Iskold, who discusses social graphs and network theory in general, points out that users want to own their own social graphs. He alo points out that examples of graphs are the Internet and the Web. So what's with the Graph word? -- Tim Berners-Lee (TwitterID: @timberners_lee). """ ; rdfs:comment """Maybe it is because Net and Web have been used. For perfectly good things .. but different things. -- Tim Berners-Lee (TwitterID: @timberners_lee). """ ; rdfs:comment """The Net we normally use as short for Internet, which is the International Information Infrastructure. Al Gore promoted the National Information Infrastructure (NII) presumably as a political pragma at the time, but clearly it became International. So let's call it III. Let's think about the Net now as an invention which made life simpler and more powerful. It made it simpler because of having to navigate phone lines from one computer to the next,you could write programs as though the net were just one big cloud, where messages went in at your computer and came out at the destination one. The realization was, "It isn't the cables, it is the computers which are interesting". The Net was designed to allow the computers to be seen without having to see the cables. Simpler, more powerful. Obvious, really. -- Tim Berners-Lee (TwitterID: @timberners_lee). """ ; dcterms:references ; rdfs:seeAlso ; wdrs:describedby <> . a schema:WebPage, schema:BlogPosting; rdfs:label "Give Yourself a URI" ; schema:about ; rdfs:comment """A lot of people have published data about themselves without using a URI for themselves. This means I can't refer to them in other data. So please take a minute to give yourself a URI. If you have a FOAF page, you may just have to add rdf:about="" and voila you have a URI: http://example.com/Alan/foaf.rdf#ABC. (I suggest you use your initials for the last bit). -- Tim Berners-Lee (TwitterID: @timberners_lee). """ ; foaf:topic , , , , , , , , ; schema:creator ; foaf:maker ; rdfs:comment """Meaning: Get Yourself an HTTP URI [Hyperlink] that functions as your Name on the World Wide Web Network. Look at what giving Names to Computers has done for the Internet [via DNS], same thing in regards to giving Names to Documents on the World Wide Web [via HTTP URLs based Hyperlinks], so why now have a name that identifies you, unambiguously [via an HTTP URI based Hyperlink]? --- Kingsley Idehen (TwitterID: @kidehen) """ ; xhv:related , . ## Giant Global Graph Description a skos:Concept; rdfs:label "Giant Global Graph"; skos:altLabel "GGG"; foaf:depiction ; rdfs:comment """Giant Global Graph of Linked Sentences/Statements (where Subject, Predicate, and Object are named [using an HTTP URI based Hyperlink] facilitated by abstaction layered atop: World Wide Web (Graph/Network where each Document is named using an HTTP URL based Hyperlink) and Internet (Graph/Network where each Computer is named using an DNS based Canonical Name [CNAME]).""" ; owl:sameAs ; skos:narrower , , ; xhv:related , , , , , , , . ## Brief Description of Brad Fitzpatrick and David Recordon a schema:BlogPosting, schema:WebPage; rdfs:label "Thoughts on the Social Graph" ; schema:about ; rdfs:comment """There are an increasing number of new "social applications" as well as traditional application which either require the "social graph" or that could provide better value to users by utilizing information in the social graph. What I mean by "social graph" is a the global mapping of everybody and how they're related, as Wikipedia describes and I talk about in more detail later. Unfortunately, there doesn't exist a single social graph (or even multiple which interoperate) that's comprehensive and decentralized. Rather, there exists hundreds of disperse social graphs, most of dubious quality and many of them walled gardens. """ ; rdfs:comment """ Currently if you're a new site that needs the social graph (e.g. dopplr.com) to provide one fun & useful feature (e.g. where are your friends traveling and when?), then you face a much bigger problem then just implementing your main feature. You also have to have usernames, passwords (or hopefully you use OpenID instead), a way to invite friends, add/remove friends, and the list goes on. So generally you have to ask for email addresses too, requiring you to send out address verification emails, etc. Then lost username/password emails. etc, etc. If I had to declare the problem statement succinctly, it'd be: People are getting sick of registering and re-declaring their friends on every site., but also: Developing "Social Applications" is too much work. """; dcterms:contributor , .