By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Boris Mann: Distributed Social Networking, B. Mann's Consulting October 24, 2005
How to move things another step forward: "Whatever the pieces of the infrastructure are, we still need to be able to pass rich user profiles back and forth. We've got an RDF-based one in FOAF, we've got a microformat one in XFN, and we've got a desktop app-compatible one in vCard". More...