A few quick things instantly come to mind (i'm not sure how well they can be adapted):
* XFN has a way to show relationships, maybe additional values could be added there instead of creating a new microformat * hCard has a Category property, If you have a group of 10 people, each could simply add a category of "CATEGORIES: Family, Flock, Gamerz" then it shows that they are in those groups. What is not addressed (yet) are your ideas of a group description or tags and the pool aspects. -brian Factory Joe wrote: > So I was going to go ahead and create a discussion page for this topic > on the wiki, but I figured I'd hold off pending initial discussion. > > So what I like about hCard is that I can create a social network of my > friends on one site, and once those services wisen up, can import all > my buddies at once via scraping the hcards off my friends listing pages. > > Now, I'd like to do the same thing for groups. So I need something > like hGroup. > > In the wild, groups usually have members and occassionally pools of > data -- like forum posts or photos. You can also have vlogging groups, > gamer groups and so on. So I'd break it down like this: > > --Group Name > | Description > | Tags > | > +--+ Members > | | > | +-- Member 1 (hcard) > | | > | +-- Member 2 (hcard) > | > +--+ Pool > | > +--+ Topic > | > +-- Post 1 (hatom) > | > +-- Post 2 (hatom) > > Anyway, what I want to be able to do is not only interchange my social > networks, but also my groups. If I've created a Flock group on Flock, > presumably I should have one created on Upcoming, iMeem and so on. > Being able to export these groups and share them between sites would > be excellent. > > I dunno, what do people think? It's just like, the more social apps I > try, the less interest I have in reinstantiating my entire social > networking infrastruture. > > Chris > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > microformats-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss > _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
