Google announced they will now be indexing FOAF files and the XFN microformats from web pages to gather publicly defined relations between people. They are then making this information available through their Social Graph API.
Basically it means when you are linking to people on your blogroll for instance you put
and you also have this link elsewhere on your blog
Now john joins twitter and the API if intergrated into twitter will be able to tell him that his friend Ciaran is on twitter based on him giving his blog URL.
If this starts to become widely implemented it will go a long to towards helping the Data Portability movement i reckon.
What do people think of it?
Basically it means when you are linking to people on your blogroll for instance you put
HTML:
<a href="http://blog.john.com" rel="friend">
<br />
<a href="http://blog.mary.com" rel="colleague">
<br />
<a href="http://blog.myGirlfriend.com" rel="date">
<br />
HTML:
<a href="http://twitter.com/CiaranR" rel="me">My Twitters</a>If this starts to become widely implemented it will go a long to towards helping the Data Portability movement i reckon.
What do people think of it?