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RDF is worth learning for a different reason — the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it. That experience will make you a better format and data API designer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use RDF itself a lot. (You can get some beginning experience with RDF fairly easily by writing and modifying simple files like FOAF and DOAP for social networks and software projects, or RDFa extensions for XHTML.)

The data are illustrated below in the chart provided by ShareThis. The results are likely an accurate reflection of the various sharing services popularity on the web as a whole as ShareThis is extremely popular:

• Email is by far most popular sharing service getting 57%.
• Facebook is the second most popular sharing service at 21%
• Digg has dropped significantly in popularity to 2%

How people share things using ShareThis. When are we gonna see XMPP coming?

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world.

WebCamp on Social Network Portability / Kingsley Hotel, Cork / 2nd March 2008

the funkiest slide I've seen for a while.

One common task while browsing the web is going sure you will be able to recall a valuable information you are just looking at. This article aims to prove that social bookmarking as in delicious, simpy, magnolia et al. is the wrong tool for that task.

One essay about the failures of actual social bookmarking systems.

So - what’s the use of FOAF for Social Network Portability?

Is this the silver bullet?

Your lists of friends and connections on the social websites that you use, sometimes called your social graph, belongs to you.

Vox offers a FOAF exporter already