XHTML Friends Network BarCamp Portland 2008-May-2

The Problem Social Network Fatigue - A new social network means rebuilding your set of friends.

Social Network Fatigue - A new social network means rebuilding your set of friends.

Your list of connections is trapped in various silos.

The solution Manage your own internet-accessable list of friends

Manage your own internet-accessable list of friends

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'

<a href=” http://twitter.com/nick ” rel=”contact”>

The rel=”contact” says the target of the link is a friend

Enhanced 'blog roll'

More of me with rel=”me” <a href=” http://digg.com/users/donpdonp ” rel=”me”> Interconnect a group of pages that describe you

<a href=” http://digg.com/users/donpdonp ” rel=”me”>

Interconnect a group of pages that describe you

The 'me' cluster

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

References http://www.donpark.org/blog/articles/2008/03/15/my-rss-reader-just-killed-friendfeed http://www.donpark.org/blog/articles/2008/03/11/rel-me-and-rel-contact-go-a-long-long-way http://www.gmpg.org/xfn/