Lost Boy

Refer a Friend to FOAF-a-Matic

Norm Walsh emailed me to note that the "refer a friend" link from the FOAF-a-Matic is broken. D'oh!

It's pretty simple, so thought I'd jot it down here.

Basically the javascript code will read three additional parameters in the URL:

• name -- your full name
• email -- your email
• seealso -- location of your FOAF file

Obviously the values of all of these need to be URL encoded. Here's an example:

http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic.html
?name=Leigh%20Dodds&email=ldodds@ingenta.com
&seealso=http://www.ldodds.com/webwho.xrdf

If you then give someone a link to the FOAF-a-Matic with those parameters, it'll fill you in as their first friend and their FOAF file will automatically have a link to yours. This is a quick way to get your friends into the FOAF network without them having to hand edit their FOAF too much.

btw, planning to revive Mark 2 shortly once the next version of the Jena API settles down.

Posted by ldodds at May 20, 2003 04:08 PM | Feedback? | | TrackBack