Funchain, the Semantic Social Network, Announces Plans to Integrate RSS and FOAF

Jason Banico, CEO of Neuracom Corporation, has announced today that the company is determined to make Funchain the primary semantic social network of choice for Internet users. Social networks are the latest Web services that aim to create communities by explicitly representing connections between friends and acquaintances. Semantic social networks are the next generation of such services, combining online publishing with social connections. Neuracom aims to move towards building the Semantic Social Network through the integration of standards, such as RSS, used for news syndication, and FOAF (or Friend-of-a-Friend), an emerging standard for defining identity and explicit connections.

(PRWEB) March 3, 2004 -- It has been less than a year when Friendster, the most well-known social networking service, hit mass popularity with their concept of connecting friends. Now, Neuracom Corporation presents the next generation of social networking, which it calls the Semantic Social Network, through Funchain (www.funchain.com).

The Semantic Social Network combines the concepts of social connections and online publishing. Unlike other social networks, which only explicitly express connections between people, the Semantic Social Network aims to create an active network of people connected to each other through the exchange of communication.

Jason Banico, CEO of Neuracom Corporation, has recently announced its strategy towards that direction. They expressed plans to integrate two standards into Funchain: RSS, which stands for Really Simple Syndication, for publishing, and FOAF, which stands for Friend-of-a-Friend, for identity and social connections.

"Adhering to these two standards is an important step for Funchain," Banico says. "We recognize that the future of the Web will be beyond a network of computers. It will be a network of people. The promise of the Semantic Social Network is to bring us closer towards that vision."

Banico says that RSS and FOAF will allow agents, which are programs which reads standardized files or markers stored in web servers, to talk to each other, creating richer communication between services.

Banico further announced that they are working towards extensions for RSS and FOAF, aimed at making a richer experience within Funchain, and aim to be a major contributor to the development of these standards as well.

The current RSS standard, version 2.0, is owned by UserLand. FOAF was authored by Dan Brickley and Libby Miller through the RDF interest group cluster of W3C.