I’d like to follow through on my anti-XFN rant with a series of, thankfully, smaller posts on the subject. I’d like to be able to offer some useful discussion as to what indeed can be done for relationship portability on the Web.
For now, though:
XFN defines rel-contact as being applicable to someone whom you “know how […]
Thursday 3rd Apr 2008, 1:30pm
Posted under Web things that must die, xfn
Tags: identity, microformats, SXSW, xfn
I wanted to write about this subject last October, prior to my recent confidence boost that has enabled me to start putting my words out there properly. At the time, a hunt around the webs didn’t seem to reveal much resistance to XFN - the microformat for relationships that’s been around since 2003 or so […]
Tuesday 1st Apr 2008, 8:48am
Posted under Uncategorized
Ugh.
One regular post a week intertwined with blog posts hawking Target products?
Watch this one sink like a stone.
Update: oh wait, I just noticed the date today! How silly of me.
So you’re signing up to BrandNuThingOnTheBlockr, and since it hasn’t yet implemented OpenID it asks you to create a password. You choose horatio, because why should you deviate from the password you’ve used for every other site? OK, maybe you should deviate slightly. You type it in and, huh, look at that, it tells you […]
From the Guardian today:
The report shows that teenagers are digitally promiscuous, switching allegiance from sites as fashions change. One 16-year-old girl told the IPPR: “First it was like everyone was on MSN, then everyone sort of has Bebo, now everyone who had MSN moved on to Facebook, so it’s just what everyone’s doing at that […]