I’m sitting near the back of the FOAF session. Complete notes can be found in the #foaf log. I’ll add my comments/notes here.
The big (but not really new) news is that Livejournal is rolling out a FOAF explorer, which could add another 2 million FOAFs. Since Livejournal is such a community and friend driven site, I can only view this as a good thing.
Dan Brickley gave an overview of FOAF and there was some discussion about privacy concerns. Edd Dumbill is currently demonstrating FOAFbot.