Lee Bryant [1] has written an introduction to online social software methodology. It was absolutely worth reading and supported myself in many of my ideas. His votes for smaller, modular software with common methods and properties; keeping it simple so that people use it.
Jennifer Golbeck [2] et. al. [3] have written a paper on \”Trust networks on the Semantic Web\” which affiliates seamingless to the above thoughts. Eric Vitiello Jr. [4,5] describes \”A module for defining trust relationships in FOAF\”:
<rdf:RDF
xmlns:rdf=\”http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\”
xmlns:rdfs=\”http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#\”
xmlns:foaf=\”http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/\”
xmlns:trust=\”http://www.perceive.net/schemas/20020725/trust#\”><foaf:Person>
<foaf:nick>pixel</foaf:nick><trust:trustsHighly>
<foaf:Person rdf:about=\”#John\”><rdfs:subject rdf:resource=\”http://dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/Perl/\” />
</foaf:Person>
</trust:trustsHighly></foaf:Person>
</rdf:RDF>
[1] http://www.headshift.com/moments/archives/sss2.html
[2] http://www.mindswap.org/papers/Trust.pdf
[3] http://www.mindswap.org/~golbeck/web/trust.shtml
[4] http://www.perceive.net/schemas/20021119/trust/#trustsImplicitly
[5] http://rdfweb.org/pipermail/rdfweb-dev/2002-December/010679.html
