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portable social networks meetup

One of several microformats events.

details

When

2007-07-28 4pmish-6pmish

Where

Ritual Coffee Roasters

What

Meeting to solve the portable profiles and social networks problem once and for all

notes

A bit last minute, but since Brian Oberkirch was in town (San Francisco), and I knew this is an important subject to him, I volunteered to announce it (http://pownce.com/t/notes/355501/) and see who showed up and what we could get done. Tantek

 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tantek/1031365529/)  (http://flickr.com/photos/brianoberkirch/937225276/)

We got quite a bit done (http://pownce.com/t/notes/357396/), check out the pages we created and edited as a result. (Thanks to ChristopheDucamp for the rapid French translations!)

• social-network-portability (fr)
• hcard-supporting-profiles (fr)
• hcard-xfn-supporting-friends-lists (fr)

There's defiinitely much more to be done, but we've got a very good start, with the basics of what social network sites need to do to both publish and subscribe/auto-sync portable social networks. I've added a few follow-up actions to my to-do list. Tantek

blog posts

Blog posts following up on the meetup and results which add more insight and discussion. Newest first.

• 2007-08-02 Portable Social Networks: A Vision Becoming True? (http://www.notsorelevant.com/2007-08-02/portable-social-networks-a-vision-becoming-true/) by Carsten Pötter
• 2007-08-01 InterNetwork (http://www.zeldman.com/2007/08/01/social-network-portability/) by Jeffrey Zeldman
• 2007-07-28 Designing Portable Social Networks (http://www.brianoberkirch.com/2007/08/02/designing-portable-social-networks/) by Brian Oberkirch
• 2007-08-03 Portable social networks becoming more real (http://www.53miles.com/archives/portable-social-networks-becoming-more-real) by Robert Gaal