Portable Social Network Friend List
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This document discusses a solution for managing personal social networks and connections across different sites without having to rebuild friend lists on each new network. It proposes using rel="contact" and rel="me" tags on profile pages and blogs to link to friend's pages and a person's own pages on different sites, and then using an XFN spider to interconnect this information and output it into an OPML file for centralized access to one's social network connections.
Portable Social Network Friend List
- 1. XHTML Friends Network BarCamp Portland 2008-May-2
- 2. The Problem Social Network Fatigue - A new social network means rebuilding your set of friends.
- 3. Your list of connections is trapped in various silos.
- 4. The solution Manage your own internet-accessable list of friends
- 5. How? With rel=contact <a href= http://twitter.com/nick rel=contact> The rel=contact says the target of the link is a friend Enhanced 'blog roll'
- 6. More of me with rel=me <a href= http://digg.com/users/donpdonp rel=me> Interconnect a group of pages that describe you
- 8. Putting it all together Input:My Home URL XFN Spider to me links XFN Spider to friends from me pages XFN Spider to me links from each friend Convert all friend me links to RSS URLs Output: OPML