Scott Yang's Playground

I first read it on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog, “Watch out Friendster, here comes Google’s Orkut“, that a new service has been set up by Google to compete against ever-so-popular Friendster. From this The Register story, Orkut is set up by a Google employee, with “in affiliation with Google” on every page, even though Google has [...]

I am a bit slow on taking up this technology, but I’ve done it anyway. Here is my Friend of a Friend file, just in case that you want to include me into your community. Download Scott’s foaf.rdf FoaF provides an open standard mechanism to build social networks in the same fashion as Friendster. In [...]

A friend of mine has convinced me to join that ever-so-popular Friendster, which is a network to allow you to link up with your friend’s friend’s friend’s friend. I don’t think it is going to be useful to me as I don’t even have time to keep up with my own friends. Interestingly, under your [...]