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    1. 20040817

      0158

      First XFN 1.1 tools

      • web
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      Less than a day after release to the web, several tools are available for XFN 1.1.

      Daniel Glazman announces that:

      Nvu 0.41 is already conformant to XFN 1.1.

      Phil McCluskey announces that:

      The latest version of the rubhub crawler (currently under development) supports XFN 1.1, and should be unleashed shortly, along with a new version of rubhub.

      Of course the XFN Creator has been updated to support XFN 1.1.

      Manuel Razzari has kept up with Creador de XFN 1.1, the Spanish-Argentinian version.

      And Serge K. Keller has just released Créateur XFN 1.1 and Creatore XFN 1.1, the French and Italian versions, respectively.

      Update: Jeroen Budts just updated XFN 1.1 Maker, his Dutch version.

      All of the XFN 1.1 Creators are made available through the very liberal Creative Commons 2.0 "by" attribution open source license. Want one in another language? Why not create one yourself and also offer it under the same Creative Commons license?

      Update: Jim Winstead has add XFN 1.1 support to blo.gs.

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      1. Anne van Kesteren

    2. 20040816

      0830

      XFN 1.1

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      • friends

      (Post delayed until 12:30pm today, updated links)

      Last week at the ACM Hypertext 2004 conference, Eric Meyer and I presented a poster on XFN - XHTML Friends Network, where we unveiled the XFN 1.1 profile for the first time.

      As Eric has written, both the profile and the new values were very well received by the hypertext experts. Thus the GMPG has updated their website accordingly, and are very proud to present:

      XFN 1.1 including the XFN 1.1 profile.

      I'm really pleased with the additions to XFN 1.1, namely, the terms contact , kin , and me .

      It's that last value that I think has the most potential.

      In short, with the new XFN rel="me" value, you can consolidate your various online identities: your home page, your blog, etc. so that they are all considered the same person from the perspective of XFN indexing services like Rubhub.com.

      In addition to consolidating your various personal web sites, you can use rel="me" to also consolidate your various centralized social network service profiles, such as orkut, friendster etc. This is what I like to call the XFN sand dollar diagram (for obvious resemblances).

      A diagram showing the relationship of a user to various social-networking sites using XFN.

      As the site says:

      Use XFN rel="me" to unify your XFN Friendly home page or blog and all your social networking site profiles into a consolidated identity.

      In my opinion this is a very interesting innovation from GMPG: identity consolidation among centralized social networking sites which were otherwise disconnected islands in the social fabric of the Web.

      Read more on why identity consolidation is the key, even more so than import/export to/from or synchronization among such services.

      Comments and other blogs commenting on this post

      1. Anne van Kesteren
      2. François Hodierne
      3. Sam
      4. Eric Meyer
      5. Didier Barbas

        Hey Didier, you have a <link rel="Orkut"... to your Orkut profile in your blog — change that to <link rel="me"... for starters, in addition to of course changing your <head profile="..." to point to http://gmpg.org/xfn/11.

        1. Didier Barbas
      6. Dougal Campbell
      7. Jonas Luster
      8. Tosh Meston (2)
      9. VerseGuru

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        Kelson, one thing you can do about the multiple-persons-on-one-blog issue is to only use XFN Friendly links within blog posts, because the context of the blog post sets a unique person (at least in your, and most common cases).

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      15. Clay Shirky

        This is excellent. Having Clay Shirky's thoughtful critique only a day after GMPG released XFN 1.1 is a sure sign that XFN has arrived. I'll follow up with a point-by-point response. For now, read these well-written responses to Clay's "analysis".

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      17. Jim Winstead — blo.gs news Friday, August 20, 2004
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