[uf-discuss] What social networking sites uses XFN to express relationships and makes the XFN data visible so that it can be screen-scraped?

Scott Reynen scott at randomchaos.com
Fri Mar 7 09:01:43 PST 2008


On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Costello, Roger L. wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> What social networking sites use XFN to express relationship
> information?
>
> In particular, I am seeking sites that let me see and scrape the XFN
> data.  That is, I want to be able to do View Page Source and see the
> rel="..." on the link.
>
> Apparently WordPress uses XFN to express relationship information, but
> the XFN data is not visible.

It's not a social networking focus, but metafilter.com uses XFN how  
you're describing.  See, for example:

http://www.metafilter.com/usercontacts/292

Peace,
Scott



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