Weird -- I was just doing the same research and came up with somewhat different conclusion! Sorry for the formatting here -- just cut and paste from a spreadsheet. I'll have a look at your list though to include in my master ;-)
Site Format Buzznet FOAF Del.icio.us N/A Digg Custom, hCard Facebook API Flickr XFN Jaiku XFN Last.fm XFN LiveJournal None Ma.gnol.ia XFN, hCard MSN Spaces a mess MySpace API Picassa no Pownce XFN Soup.io no StumbleUpon Custom Twitter API Typepad FOAF Tumblr No export Upcoming Custom Wordpress No Vimeo Custom YouTube Custom Vox XFN Regards, etc... On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Costello, Roger L. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I have been doing some digging into social networks that use XFN vice > FOAF. > > Thus far, the only social network that I have found which uses XFN is > metafilter.com For an example, see: > http://www.metafilter.com/usercontacts/292 Thanks Scott Reynen for > pointing me to it. > > Supposedly WordPress.com uses XFN but I have not been able to > demonstrate this (I have an account on WordPress and have tried > repeatedly to demonstrate the use of XFN but to no avail). > > Conversely, I discovered that FOAF is used by many social networks. > Here is a list of 28 social networks that use FOAF: > http://esw.w3.org/topic/FoafSites > > Here's an example of the use of FOAF on livejournal.com > http://danbri.livejournal.com/data/foaf (View >> Page Source to see the > actual FOAF document) > > Another thing that I have discovered is that the relationship > information provided by FOAF is just "knows", e.g. Alice knows Bob. > XFN, on the other hand, has a rich set of relationship information, > e.g. Alice is a friend, co-worker, neighbor, and kin of Bob. > Furthermore, XFN is a much lighter-weight approach (just add the > relationship onto a link) than FOAF (create a complex RDF document). > So it would seem that XFN provides a richer and lighter-weight set of > information and would be a better choice for social networks. > > WHY IS THERE SUCH LITTLE USE OF XFN BY SOCIAL NETWORKS? > > /Roger > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > microformats-discuss@microformats.org > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > -- David Janes Founder, BlogMatrix http://www.blogmatrix.com http://www.onaswarm.com http://www.onamine.com _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
