With (preferably optional) rel="me" tags in place I could make my web apps go and look for users related services (Last.fm and Flickr, for example) and import them in my app without additional user invention.
If two sites link to each other using rel="me" it adds a layer of trust that they are in fact the same person. This is illustrated by Plaxo's Open Social Graph.
Twitter supports this now, so when I run my homepage through the above link it validates that both pages refer to the same person. You can see here that my jaiku page is "claimed" but is not validated as mine.
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care to elaborate? why?
2 years, 3 months ago by silpol
For making my social network more portable.
With (preferably optional) rel="me" tags in place I could make my web apps go and look for users related services (Last.fm and Flickr, for example) and import them in my app without additional user invention.
This technique is a part of XFN and helps social network portability.
2 years, 3 months ago by Uninen
I'd like to see this as well.
If two sites link to each other using rel="me" it adds a layer of trust that they are in fact the same person. This is illustrated by Plaxo's Open Social Graph.
Twitter supports this now, so when I run my homepage through the above link it validates that both pages refer to the same person. You can see here that my jaiku page is "claimed" but is not validated as mine.
2 years, 2 months ago by jasonpenney