FOAF: friends of a friend

FOAF, or Friend of a Friend, refers to a set of social networking standards and tools for online sharing and searching of user profile information. Users will find this useful if they want to make a list of their friends and be able to export or import their list among social networking applications.

The FOAF module allows users to export FOAF documents based on their profile information. The FOAF module can additionally export your buddy list if the buddylist module is enabled. You can download FOAF files in the view tab of a user profile if FOAF is enabled.

The FOAF module will also auto sync profile information between Drupal sites using the distributed authentication of the drupal module -- this also requires the profile module to be enabled and mapping of profile fields to FOAF fields in the admin section.

You can

• read the FOAF wikipedia explanation.
• read the FOAFNet specificiation.
• view user profiles and select a user to see their FOAF file.
• map user profile fields to the FOAF standard at administer >> settings >> FOAF
• enable the buddy list module at administrator >> modules.
• file issues, read about known bugs, and download the latest version on the FOAF project page