Jeremy Keith

Clearleft

An Irish web developer living in Brighton, England

working with Clearleft
writing at adactio
playing with Salter Cane
enjoying Irish traditional music and good food

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9:45 Thursday, 8 May 2008

Creating portable social networks with microformats

Social networks Goldsmiths 1

Jeremy Keith (Clearleft)

Why does every new social networking site make you re-enter all your details and rebuild your friends list? Your contact and relationship details are already published elsewhere. If this data is published in hCard and XFN, it is readable by machines as well as people. Learn how a little sprinkling of microformats can create an ecosystem that makes portable social networks a reality. Read more.