Michael MD wrote:
There are several problems with this:
* Service providers usually require you to pay before you can contact
someone you've found or vice versa.
Such sites usually allow you to browse user profiles for free, but expect
you to pay to contact anyone so I think there is probably a need for a way
to specify the cost and methods used to contact someone.
There are formats being discussed for marking up currency. hListing has
the ability to markup prices, although I think it should be free to
contact someone. It would be if we had the ability to list profiles on
our own sites (where we wouldn't be restricted by the contact info we
can provide) and have them indexed by personals search engines.
The kind of information typically collected by these sites includes the
following (some of which can already be handled by existing microformats):
...
Other microformats that could be useful for integrating with this would
include:
* rel-tag. e.g.
<a href="..." rel="tag" class="gender">Male</a>,
<a href="..." rel="tag" class="sport">Swimming</a>
+ what they are seeking
What kind of people (if any) do they want to meet and what do they want to
do together with the people they meet.
Maybe there would be two lists of tags, one about themselves and one about
what they are seeking.
I mentioned that in one of my previous posts. hListing offers a way for
specifying both a "meet" and "wanted" listing (among others). "meet"
could be used for your own personal profile and "wanted" for the profile
of your ideal partner.
We may also need to think about how to make it less confusing for something
that only looks at rel-tag - eg Someone may put "male" in a list about
themselves and "female" in a list of what they are seeking but come up as
both in something that can't separate the two lists of tags!
Yes, that problem is related to the rel-tag limitations I've been
discussing.
--
Lachlan Hunt
http://lachy.id.au/
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