XFN

XFN puts a human face on linking. As more people have come online and begun to form social networks, services such as Technorati and Feedster have arisen in an attempt to show how the various nodes are connected. Such services are useful for discovering the mechanical connections between nodes, but they do not uncover the human relationships between the people responsible for the nodes.

XFN outlines the relationships between individuals by defining a small set of values that describe personal relationships. In HTML and XHTML documents, these are given as values for the rel attribute on a hyperlink. XFN allows authors to indicate which of the weblogs they read belong to friends, whom they've physically met, and other personal relationships. Using XFN values, which can be listed in any order, people can humanize their blogrolls and links pages, both of which have become a common feature of weblogs.

XFN stands for XHTML Friends Network and is a union of a protocol (XHTML) and the concept of friends.XFN makes it possible for one to describe the nature of relationships to others when you point to their virtual presence on Internet (Web site, blog, etc.). Using the XFN microformat, one can can encode into any hyperlink that the person one is hyperlinking to is a sweetheart, a colleague, a family member (child, parent, etc.), an acquaintance, etc. (there's a more complete list of currently permitted values known as the XFN profile) (Click here for more details on the preceding paragraph.

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Task

Visit this Exhaustive list of XFN links, read as many as possible and then call to see me.

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