at almost exactly the same time i’m reading
om malik’s

plea for a
a
dencentralized friendster-style application

, i noticed something called
plink

in my referer logs, which seems to be indexing
foaf

files:

“Welcome to PLINK, a new way to find friends, and
friends of friends!

PLINK gets all its user data from ‘FOAF’ (Friend-of-a-Friend) files
which anyone can add to their web site.”

plink

seems fairly rudimentary at this point and i’m sure we’ll see much
more of this type of thing in the coming months, since in the
comments to om’s post, it looks like
marc canter

is working on a foaf-based project call
peopleaggregator

. i’d also find it hard to believe that
dave

isn’t working on something similar for
technorati

. perhaps
foaf

isn’t destined to die on the vine afterall.