On Sat, 10 Apr 2004, Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen wrote: FFSO>Because, with Orkut, you might find some interesting FFSO>friends/acquintances you *do not* know, but which your friends are FFSO>friends with. But that doesn't work if your friends are all new to Orkut too, which is my problem. FFSO>I think that would be great, if it implemented FOAF[1] output ;) FFSO>Actually, I don't think there are any Friend-of-a-Friend services for FFSO>roleplayers out there, so... if Phoenyx want to do it, they'd/you'd be FFSO>some of a I think we're already some of a. But we've been looking at a more formalized version of the wiki's profile page (since a centralized registration is part of the new software, though it doesn't technically have to be done on the web), and adding the FOAF standard wouldn't be difficult at all. To a certain extent, I'm not seeing Orkut (Friendster, Tribes, et al.) offering anything the Phoenyx doesn't already, except that they're clunkier in the conversation area where we're clunkier (for now) in the user-linking area. MHO is that the conversation area is the more important of the two... -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
