In my precedent post, I wrote about mobile presence and having a mobile address. Note that it would be better called “universal address”, as it unifies all the contact addresses one has.

Julien Boyreau (where’s your blog?) pointed out in the comments that FOAF would be a pretty good solution for representing this contact information.

From the FOAF page:

The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project is about creating a Web of machine-readable homepages describing people, the links between them and the things they create and do.

I have recently started using LinkedIn, a web site that helps you maintain and develop your social network. But what bothers me about LinkedIn is that one is dependent on this company for such important personal information.

FOAF could be one of the bricks to develop a decentralized version of LinkedIn. Some tools are still missing to make all this much more user friendly, but there might be something there to do. The nice thing is that technically, one doesn’t need to have its own domain to have its contact in FOAF format, as people are identified with their email.

I put my first brick, creating my foaf page (with the FOAF-a-matic).

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