Hello all, I am Pleased to announce Hypertext Friend of a Friend or hFoaF.
hFoaF came to be because I noticed a patten of people trying to consolidate their identity's, express interests, and friends in their user profiles and homepages using hcard[1] and a url with the XFN[2] rel="me", marking up their friends and colleagues with simple anchor text links and other XFN values, and expressing their interests by using either xFolk[3] or hAtom[4]. How common is this pattern, well to be honest not many every user profile at Ma.Gnolia[5] is marked up in this way, and Tantek's homepage[6] is also marked up in this way. others are, Lasfm, twitter, and nsyght Profiles but the markup (for me) is so difficult to tidy and parse that with the exception of nsyght it is difficult extract anything useful :( examples: Using the transformer available at, http://weborganics.co.uk/hFoaf/?id= source: http://www.tantek.com/ output: http://tinyurl.com/3g4dv5 source: http://ma.gnolia.com/people/aarongustafson output: http://tinyurl.com/3eqzya Using GRDDL available at, http://www.w3.org/2007/08/grddl/?docAddr= profile: http://weborganics.co.uk/Profiles/hFoaF.xsl source: http://weborganics.co.uk/ output: http://tinyurl.com/3ucx9z If you are interested in the source code or would like to know a little more please visit http://weborganics.co.uk/hFoaf/ As usual comments constructive criticism welcome. Thanks. [1] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard [2] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn [3] http://microformats.org/wiki/xfolk [4] http://microformats.org/wiki/hatom [5] http://ma.gnolia.com/ [6] http://www.tantek.com/ Martin McEvoy http://weborganics.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list microformats-discuss@microformats.org http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss