What is better user experience?

1. less pain
2. faster
3. empowering
4. happy

What are microformats?

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• contact • Operator • coffee • BarCamps • search

hCard import subscribe to sign up users

• most widely supported profile format
• more hCard users than any one site
• single field sign up?
• beware 3rd party authorization
  • the user trusts your site
  • phishing problems with roundtrips
  • enrollment authorization MITM problems
  • for more: CHI 2006: Why Phishing Works
• consider implementing OpenID in addition
  • but insist on not sacrificing user experience

find friends

• improvement: don't ask my Twitter!
• Pownce: Add Friends
• problem: what if same nickname is different people?
• problem: each network one at a time?
• use Google Social Graph API
  1. which other sites am I on
  2. who are my friends across sites
• problem: new friends from Twitter
• syndicate friends lists?

Join the conversation

• microformats.org/wiki/irc
• weekly meetup dinner tonight 630pm Westfield

Thanks!