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I was talking about FOAF in a post about LinkedIn. FOAF or "Friend of a friend" is a one of the staples of social media since it helps you find people who are friend of people you already know. I think it has a tragic flaw though. What happens when your friends are too friendly?
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LinkedIn is probably the place to find profiles for business collegues.  Their  F.O.A.F. (friend of a friend) searching is the most useful implementation of a business profile search.  Search on any name and it will tell you inf they are in your contact list.. Of a friend of a collegue.. or a friend of a friend.. etc
While LinkedIn was always people focussed.  Yesterday they announced Company profiles.  See http://blog.linkedin.com/blog/2008/03/company-profile.html

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I've already been asked 4 times today what I thought about "Open Social". Open Social is Google's initiative to allow developers to write to one API and pick which social "host" to get the data from.
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