Editing Advogato (section)

== History ==
Advogato described itself as "the free software developer's advocate." Advogato was an early pioneer of [[blog]]s, formerly known as "online diaries", and one of the earliest social networking websites. Advogato combined the most recent entries from each user's diary together into a single continuous feed called the ''recentlog'', directly inspiring the creation of the [[Planet aggregator]] somewhat later.{{fact|date=January 2014}}

Several high-profile members of the [[free software]] and [[open source software]] movements were users of the site, including [[Richard M. Stallman]], [[Eric Raymond]],  [[Alan Cox (computer programmer)|Alan Cox]], [[Bruce Perens]], and [[Jamie Zawinski]].

Because Advogato was the first website to use a robust, attack-resistant [[trust metric]] and to release the underlying code for that trust mechanism under a free software license, it has been the basis of numerous research papers on trust metrics and social networking (see the list below for specific examples). Advogato's early adoption of an [[XML-RPC]] interface led to its use as an example of how such interfaces could be used by web programmers.<ref>Cadenhead, Rogers, Teach Yourself Programming with Java in 24 Hours, Sams, 2005</ref>

Advogato saw use as a testbed for social networking and semantic web technologies. [[Tim Berners-Lee]], who was an Advogato user himself, included Advogato in a short list of sites notable for their early adoption of the [[FOAF]] as a method of exporting user RDF URIs.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071212235629/http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7126 Tim Berners-Lee: From World Wide Web to Giant Global Graph]</ref>