More on Social Networks
June 14, 2005
A few days ago, I blogged about FOAF. Since then I've been more aware to simple solutions/approaches to the social face of the technical web. A few days after I stumbled across XFN /XHTML Friends Network), another very simple way to represent social relationships through annotations on the most used presentation language on the Internet: HTML. What else is out there ?
In the lack of a widespread adopted mechanism to represent user data and human relationships, there are many proposals laying around waiting for fame and fortune:
Personal Data Representation:
FOAF - Friend of a Friend
VCard - Electronic Business Card
XMDP - XHTML Meta Data Profiles
Profile JEP - Jabber Profile JEP proposal
Relationship representation:
XFN - XHTML Friends Network
FOAF - Friend of a Friend
XMPP - Jabber's Rosters 
Centralized Services:
Orkut - Connects people through a network of trusted friends
Friendster - Orkut's clone
Yahoo 360 - Friendster's clone
RubHub - XFN Relationship Lookup Engine
Centralized Services:
Orkut - Connects people through a network of trusted friends
Friendster - Orkut's clone
Yahoo 360 - Friendster's clone
RubHub - XFN Relationship Lookup Engine
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Friendster came out before Orkut...
Gazzag and hi5 are also popular social networking sites
Tuesday, June 14. 2005 at 23:33 (Link) (Reply)
Wednesday, June 15. 2005 at 09:38 (Link) (Reply)