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.

1. XHTML Friends Network BarCamp Portland 2008-May-2

3. Your list of connections is trapped in various silos.

7. The 'me' cluster

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

9. 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/