Tantek Celick at Social Graph Foo Camp, February 2008
summary
Work on microformats started by encoding vCard and friend relationships into HTML so blogs can declare connections, and early XFN drafts get implemented within weeks. Google’s Brad Fitzpatrick launches the Social Graph API that crawls xfn links so a query like "tantek.com" returns who is connected and how. That immediate utility prompts half dozen sites to add support for hCard, and the roadmap shifts toward distributed identities (Diesel, WordPress) that let apps import profiles and friends instead of rebuilding social UIs.
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