| We are into new form of social softwares .Cyberpunks told us about the surge of genetically barcodes for human beings in future .Do this tagging phenomenon in this virtual world a rise of another civilization where oneness of human consciousness emanate?? XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. Its introduced by the Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) which was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik, Eric Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg. The group has developed technologies to represent human relationships using XHTML called XHTML Friends Network and XHTML Meta Data Profiles (XMDP), for use in weblogs .The "XHTML Friends" is an XFN search engine/crawler/visualiser. It searches the web for pages with links with XFN attributes and then displays the information.Social network search engines allow people to find each other according to their XFN social relationships. XHTML Friends Network allows people to share their relationships on their own sites, thus forming a decentralized/distributed online social network, in contrast to centralized social network services.XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ' rel' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.:
XFN puts a human face on linking. As more people have come online and begun to form social networks, services such as Technorati and Feedster have arisen in an attempt to show how the various nodes are connected. Such services are useful for discovering the mechanical connections between nodes, but they do not uncover the human relationships between the people responsible for the nodes. XFN outlines the relationships between individuals by defining a small set of values that describe personal relationships. In HTML and XHTML documents, these are given as values for the rel attribute on a hyperlink. XFN allows authors to indicate which of the weblogs they read belong to friends, whom they've physically met, and other personal relationships. Using XFN values, which can be listed in any order, people can humanize their blogrolls and links pages, both of which have become a common feature of weblogs. In sufficiently modern browsers, authors using XFN can easily style all links of a particular type; thus, friends could be boldfaced, co-workers italicized, and so on. It is also the hope of the authors that this practice becomes widespread enough to allow the creation of a service that charts personal (as opposed to purely mechanical) links between weblogs and the people responsible for them. For more informations visit http://www.xhtmlfriends.net/? http://gmpg.org/ http://rubhub.com/main/ |
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