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Creating Portable Social Networks with Microformats
A presentation from XTech 2008 in Dublin. How a few simple class and rel attributes can make data and relationships spiderable.
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- Slide 1:creating
portable
social networks
with
microformats
- Slide 2: social networks
pownce.com
ma.gnolia.com
edenbee.com
upcoming.yahoo.com
last.fm
twitter.com
flickr.com
Social network fatigue?
More important than that: freedom of movement; reducing friction when moving from service to
service.
This isn’t about giving up one network in favour of another.
Interoperability is the goal.
- Slide 3: username &
password
antipattern
Suck email addresses out of address books by requesting webmail username and password on a
third-party site.
This teaches users how to be phished.
Insecure.
- Slide 4: API+OAuth
google contacts
flickr
Safe and secure but complex to implement.
Does knowledge of someone’s email address really define a relationship anyway?
- Slide 5: reuse
simple
existing
microformats
Principl