Interactivity of the Web: Join the Mosaic

That was the correct answer! The next example of the interactivity of the Web is a tie-in with a currently airing television show, designed both to popularize the series and to give viewers an outlet to get excited about the show outside of the episodes themselves. This is the Mosaic Collective, a site which was featured on the show "Flash Forward." On the show, the whole world blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds, and during the blackout, everyone saw their future. The Mosaic Collective is a site for people on the show to come and share stories about what they saw. The existence of this site in real life serves as both a way for fans of the show to post their own invented stories and for the creators of the show to incorporate plot developments and other tie-ins. The site allows users to view entries according to patterns and images or in a map or flow format. Submitted one-liners are mostly humorous, ranging from silly - "I saw my life in the future. I was at school, and everyone had mutated into giant evil green aliens" - to funny - "I was at lunch with Damon Lindelof and J.J. Abrams, and they told me the answers to LOST’s secrets and how the final season will end" - to referential of the technology used to create the Mosaic site itself - "I saw Mosaic Collective site was updated to HTML instead of all Flash / Flex, and it was so much better to use! I miss the future." The series is currently on hiatus, and the success of the site hasn't yet been evaluated, but if you're curious, visit JointheMosaic.com.


On to the next step, but first, a question! Tim Berners-Lee is currently working on the Semantic Web using FOAF files. What does FOAF stand for?

a) File on a file
b) Fresh off a fork
c) First of a formula
d) Friend of a friend