Google Profiles to join the Semantic Web!

February 17, 2010

In David’s book, Pull, he mentions i-names, which are designed to give us a chance to create public profiles online and manage them. We hope they succeed. In the meantime, if you have a Google account with a Gmail address, you can create a profile and use it for many different Google applications. Now, according to Dr. Michael Hausenblas at DERI, if you choose to make your profile public, it will present your information in – gasp! – XRD and FOAF! Yes! If you understand what that means, you’re a definite identity geek. For the rest of us, it means that public Google profiles will be available online in a standard open format that is already part of the semantic web. This is extremely important, ladies and gentlemen. To learn the ramifications, read chapters 7 and 8 of Pull. It could lead to a world of services available via i-cards on our mobile phones. This is part of what we’re hoping to see from Google. A small but important step forward. People at Facebook should take notice. If you really want the details, read Michael’s blog entry.

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