Re: [foaf-dev] Rapportive

On 11/9/10 11:28 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
> On 8 November 2010 13:32, Dan Brickley<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> via Daniel O'Connor, cc:'d., an interesting Gmail-addon app:
>> http://rapportive.com/   ... this (amongst presumably other things) is
>> pulling in data from Google's Social Graph API (and hence from XFN and
>> FOAF). When you view a mail message in Gmail (including Gmail Apps for
>> Domains), it shows a sidebar with photos and info about the sender.
>>
>> IMHO when people look for 'linked data killer apps', they often look
>> in the wrong places. We don't need some ground shaking wonder site,
>> ... just for our stuff to be unubtrusively useful. Users shouldn't
>> know it's there.
>>
>> A couple years ago I gave a talk touching on the idea of an 'invisible
>> Semantic Web'. ---
>> http://www.slideshare.net/danbri/when-presentation-849447
>>
>> "An invisible Semantic Web... Somewhat better search results. Slightly
>> smarter spam filters. A calendar full of useful information. Long-term
>> archival tools. Auto-maintained cross-references. Relevant people
>> grouped in addressbook. "
>>
>> And this is just the kind of thing I had in mind. I fear this isn't
>> revolutionary enough for some folk, but hey, we can have a revolution
>> later too.
>>
>> The Rapportive app reminds me a bit of the old Gnome Dashboard work,
>> see Edd's http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-desktop/
>> and more recently the experiment I made at wiring up SGAPI via Mozilla
>> Ubiquity (http://danbri.org/words/2008/08/28/369). I think Thunderbird
>> itself is growing some similar facilities lately too. Anyway, I'll try
>> using it for a while and see how it works in practice...
>>
>> Anything that helps people cope with giant email inboxes by putting
>> faces to names, and conversations in context, has to be worth
>> investigating.
> One thing I've noticed about rapportive is:  most of the contacts I
> see have some kind of profiles.  But spammers generally have none.
> Could an linked data version of this be a potential spam filter?

Once all the entities have URIs that de-ref to structured 
representations of associated profile data, why not? :-)


Kingsley
>> cheers,
>>
>> Dan
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