URL: http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/09/25.html#foaf_explorer
Date: 2002-09-25T18:18:53-05:00
Morten Frederiksen has taken a first stab at a real-time social network
explorer based on FOAF files. You could start on my profile[1] and explore from
there, or enter the URL of your own FOAF file (at the bottom of the page). It's
heavy on tech details, but you can easily see the potential here. (It's also a
great way to debug your FOAF file, if you added anything manually.) Now we need
somebody to build a spider that follows foaf:knows links and draws pretty
social network diagrams, so we can see the forest for the trees.
[1] http://xml.mfd-consult.dk/foaf/?foaf=http%3A%2F%2Fdiveintomark.org%2Fpublic%2Ffoaf.rdf

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_All Mozilla did is steal Netscape's thunder. _
True, but if Netscape had actually bothered to put valuable additions into its
product, then that wouldn't have happened. Similarly, if Netscape hadn't taken
away valuable features from Mozilla, then maybe people would actually want to

URL: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/news/20020925.html
Date: Not supplied
Eddie Kessler describes programming at Napster[1].
Ray Ozzie has more on platforms[2]. "Finding the 'right' price point for a
software platform is critical." To me this sounds like a fancy way of saying,
"I groove all that stuff about how platforms need to be cheap and ubiquitous,
but I can't bring myself to do it." The price, Ray says, "must be high enough
both 1) to maintain a perception of value in the platform, and 2) to create
significant margins well before ubiquity is assured so that the ecosystem is
assured of the platform's ultimate viability." What he doesn't mention: if you
lower the price on the only product you're selling, you have a revenue hit,
which will not make your investors happy, and you may run out of money and have
to close. But that must be what he's thinking.
[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/WorstProjectEver.html
[2] http://www.ozzie.net/blog/stories/2002/09/24/softwarePlatformDynamics.html