If you've been following the FOAF lists, you'll know about my FOAFQ query service CGI thing already. It lets you do little-language searches on Libby Miller's newly-crawled FOAF corpora, such as weblog of sbp. Simple, and it breaks a lot, but it shows the potential of the system given a good interface.
Since then, I've had a few very nice comments from some very nice people, some of whom I knew, and some of whom I know now. Example:-
"Sean B. Palmer's Foaf Query Service kicks mighty ass. Well worth a play with."—Ben Hammersley
I also got one fairly indifferent comment, though it's in French, so at least it's pretty.
"Pas de possibilités énormes pour l'instant"—Jean-Julien Claudon
(There are no enormous possibilities for the moment.) Actually, it's right on target: the current form is my impression of how one should be able to query the FOAF Web. Jay Fienberg's attempt at a different interface is the sort of valiant forward motion I'm hoping for. It's not that his way of querying (drop-down form) is better than mine (little-language) or vice versa, it's that we need to try out all sorts of approaches for the maximum benefit.