Re: [foaf-dev] TipJar

On 6 July 2011 09:32, Boris Reitman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My name is Boris and I'm the author of the site
> http://www.Online-TipJar.com .  I am interested in the "foaf:tipjar"
> property, and how can it be used for me to identify ownership of
> tipjars.
> Are there any websites that implemented it, and this property can be
> easily editted ?
>
> I'm prepared to provide a tipjar service if your community can help
> people link to their tipjar, and promote this method.
>
> My service takes no commisions, and makes money off-of tips itself.

Hi Boris,

Thanks for asking. To date in my experience, foaf:tipjar is relatively
un-used, or at least under-used.

You might find some occurrences of it in hand-crafte FOAF data, but I
know of no large sites/services producing or consuming it.

The main reason I think is trust. It is hard to know when an ?x tipjar
?y claim is true, nor how to verify it.

This may start changing slowly with availability of technologies like
OpenID, OAuth, and WebID, which allow downstream sites to check to see
if someone is who they say they are. Or at least which accounts they
can prove control over. So for example, for artists who have MySpace
accounts, we could in theory use MySpace's OpenID server to allow
artists to log into other sites, and yet know who they (or their
agents/managers/publicists...) were.

Sorry not to be more help, but let's stay in touch.

cheers,

Dan
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