Revision as of 04:02, 12 June 2009

rel="me"

XFN 1.1 introduced the "me" rel value which is used to indicate profile equivalence and for identity-consolidation.

rel="me" is used on hyperlinks from one page about a person to other pages about that same person.

For example, Tantek's home page has (markup simplified)

<a href="http://twitter.com/t" rel="me">@t</a>

And his Twitter profile itself has (markup simplified)

<a href="http://tantek.com/" rel="me">http://tantek.com/</a>

Thus establishing a bi-directional rel-me link and confirming that the two URLs represent the same person.

Publishers can use the XFN creator form to create rel-me hyperlinks.

Watch some short videos:

Longer:

Gavin Bell on "What is your provenance?" (40 minutes) - provides a much broader discussion of the problem statement of who is a person on the Web, and starting at about 0:07:30 explains how hCard + rel="me" helps solve this problem.

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 Watch some short videos:
 * [http://www.sixapart.com/static_news/opening_social_graph/xfn_links/xfn_links.html David Recordon's excellent *30 second* explanation of XFN rel="me"].
-* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabCylbapuM Brad Fitzpatrick explain rel="me" and more XFN].
+* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabCylbapuM Brad Fitzpatrick explains rel="me" and more XFN].
 * [http://www.podtech.net/scobleshow/technology/1611/plaxo-to-ship-online-identity-aggregator-based-on-microformats Joseph Smarr's whiteboard explanation] of rel="me" as implemented in the Plaxo online identity aggregator.
 Longer: