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* your list of [[xfn|XFN]] contacts, acquaintances, friends etc. again from your URL (blog, etc.)
* your list of [[xfn|XFN]] contacts, acquaintances, friends etc. again from your URL (blog, etc.)


Concrete suggestions:
Concrete discussion and suggestions:
* Jeremy Keith: [http://adactio.com/journal/1209/ Twittering]: <blockquote><p>Here’s what I want: when I go to the latest social networking fadsite, I want it to ask for my URL. Then it can go off and fetch my [[hcard|hCard]] and [[xfn|XFN]] list. A pre-filled form for my details and a pre-filled list of potential contacts can then be presented to me.</p></blockquote>
* Derek Featherstone: [http://www.boxofchocolates.ca/archives/2006/11/21/solving-problems-with-social-networking Solving problems with social networking]
* Jeremy Keith: [http://adactio.com/journal/1212/ More thoughts on portable social networks]
* Glenn Jones: [http://www.glennjones.net/Post/820/Microformatsandportablesocialnetwork.htm Microformats and portable social network]
* Velvetsarah has [http://www.velvet.id.au/2006/11/23/portable-social-networks/ posted a screenshot and brainstorm] about how a site could handle importing XFN enabled contacts.
* Velvetsarah has [http://www.velvet.id.au/2006/11/23/portable-social-networks/ posted a screenshot and brainstorm] about how a site could handle importing XFN enabled contacts.
[http://www.velvet.id.au/2006/11/23/portable-social-networks/ http://www.velvet.id.au/out/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/picture-9.png]
[http://www.velvet.id.au/2006/11/23/portable-social-networks/ http://www.velvet.id.au/out/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/picture-9.png]
 
=== Social Network Portability FAQ ===
*Doesn't [http://openid.net/ OpenID] address the former? [[User:AndyMabbett|Andy Mabbett]] 11:21, 16 Dec 2006 (PST)
*''Doesn't [http://openid.net/ OpenID] address the re-enter all your personal profile info problem?''
** No it does not. OpenID is fundamentally about proving to one site that you own or control another particular URL.  Nothing more.  All the profile stuff is extra and even then the specific property set is unspecified in OpenID.  That's where [[hcard|hCard]] comes in.  hCard specifies a vocabulary of personal profile info (name, email, birthday, URL etc.) based on vCard.  And in fact that's all you need to solve the "re-enter all your personal info" problem for public sites - no need to authenticate public URLs via OpenID, just read them and parse their hCard(s).


== Browser Integration ==
== Browser Integration ==

Revision as of 10:11, 24 January 2007

User Interface

Recently there have been many really good user interface ideas and suggestions for working with microformats. This page serves to collect and document them so that we may be inspired by and iterate on each others' works.

Implementations

See implementations, and document examples of good UI from there, here.

  • Miffy inserts a green square into the document to represent the presence of microformat
  • Some Greasemonkey scripts use a separate iFrame for microformat content
  • Other Greasemonkey scripts insert an icon inline into the page
  • Tails Export (Firefox extension) can display and export some microformats.

Challenges

  • Chris Messina: "What kind of solutions can we come up with that are single click only?"
  • Andy Mabbett - How can we make them accessible to people with (for instance) visual disabilities?

Social Network Portability

Why is it that every single social network community site makes you:

  • re-enter all your personal profile info (name, email, birthday, URL etc.)
  • re-add all your friends

?

Instead, let's see some user interface suggestions for sites to simply import or, even better subscribe to:

  • your hCard from your URL (blog, profile from another service etc.)
  • your list of XFN contacts, acquaintances, friends etc. again from your URL (blog, etc.)

Concrete discussion and suggestions:

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Social Network Portability FAQ

  • Doesn't OpenID address the re-enter all your personal profile info problem?
    • No it does not. OpenID is fundamentally about proving to one site that you own or control another particular URL. Nothing more. All the profile stuff is extra and even then the specific property set is unspecified in OpenID. That's where hCard comes in. hCard specifies a vocabulary of personal profile info (name, email, birthday, URL etc.) based on vCard. And in fact that's all you need to solve the "re-enter all your personal info" problem for public sites - no need to authenticate public URLs via OpenID, just read them and parse their hCard(s).

Browser Integration

From screenshot brainstorms to working plugins, there is a lot going on with browser integration of microformats support.

Screen Shots

Plugins

Planning and Discussion

Simpler Markup Languages

There are plenty of wiki-formats that attempt to make it easier for more people author semantic markup, often with textually decorative punctuation.

As these simpler markup languages are something that *users* are expected to type, they are user interface.

Markdown extension for hCalendar

See Markdown and the hCal microformat which proposes an extension to the Markdown text markup language to capture and represent hCalendar event semantics in a human editable form.