XFN is a way to describe your relationship to someone else on the web via the rel attribute for a link. XFN is a simple idea, and seems easy to implement, so I may add the information to my links shortly. Basically if Dave is my friend, and I have a link to him on my web-page, then I state that he is my friend in that link.
Update: I'm listed on rubhub now. I haven't thought of anything cool to do with the XFN information, except perhaps highlight links differently depending on my relationship with someone.
My links are now annotated with XFN information.
[Posted by ramanan on March 23, 2004 03:51 PM]cool, can i be your arch-nemesis?
[Posted by rishi on March 23, 2004 05:16 PM]Apparently it isn't an option. I wonder why.
[Posted by ramanan on March 23, 2004 06:39 PM]booo-urns.
[Posted by rishi on March 23, 2004 07:14 PM]See http://gmpg.org/xfn/background -- specifically, the part titled "Positive or neutral relationships only."
[Posted by Eric Meyer on March 24, 2004 10:49 PM]So there is your answer, Rishi. I guess I can always add you as my arch-nemisis. I wonder how the system handles malformed relationships? I wonder how Eric found my site too. (He is one of the three people who wrote up this XFN spec.)
[Posted by ramanan on March 24, 2004 11:29 PM]maybe he's got a trackback going.
[Posted by rishi on March 25, 2004 11:25 AM]I suspect it is magic that brought him here.
[Posted by ramanan on March 25, 2004 02:35 PM]This site is dead. Check out my new web site A Funkaoshi Production.
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