Continuing Plaxo's interest in the Friend-of-a-Friend Project (FOAF), one of our senior engineers (Joseph Smarr) will be attending the upcoming FOAF Workshop in Galway, Ireland. Joseph will present Plaxo's experiences with trying to integrate FOAF in a talk entitled "Technical and Privacy Challenges for Integrating FOAF into Existing Applications" and sit on a panel entitled "I want my data back" along with Marc Canter, Julian Bond, and others. We're looking forward to meeting the rest of the FOAF community face-to-face and discussing how FOAF can be scaled up to the point that large services like Plaxo can take advantage of it while giving their members sufficient flexibility and protecting their privacy.
See the full FOAF Workshop programme at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/programme.html. If you're going to be there, or you have any questions or comments you'd like to relay, feel free to contact Joseph at joseph-foaf@plaxo.com.