Category Archives: Microformats

Relationships are complicated

I’ve noticed a few interesting responses to my post on simplifying XFN. While my intended audiences were primarily fellow microformat enthusiasts and “lower case semantic web” types, there seems to be a larger conversation underway that I’d missed — one that both Adam “Everyware” Greenfield and Tim Berners-Lee have commented on. In a treatise against [...]

Portable contact lists and the case against XFN

I suppose it might come as a surprise that I’ve decided to question, if not reject, XFN as the format for expressing portable friends or contact lists. I’m not throwing out the baby in the bathwater here, but rather focusing on the problem that needs to be solved and choosing to redouble my efforts on [...]

The Existential DiSo Interview

The Existential DiSo Interview from Chris Messina on Vimeo. Here’s what I asked myself: how are you? we’re going to talk about diso today? is that right? what is diso? you say it’s a social network, so how would it work with wordpress? how is this different from myspace or facebook? so who’s involved in [...]