MyBlogLog has extended its support for the XFN microformat today. Admittedly I have been unaware that it has supported <rel="me"> for links to other online profiles for quite some time already. Either I missed the announcement or there just wasn’t one. Anyway, as of today contacts are also marked up with XFN and even the <rel="tag"> microformat has been added to tags on blog community pages and user pages.
While XFN is describing relationships between people, the <rel="tag"> microformat is categorizing content of a web page, so that it can be parsed by services like Technorati.
Since a few weeks MyBlogLog also allows users to verify ownership of the blog they run. They simply add a generated <meta> tag to the <head> section of their blog which will then be verified by MyBlogLog; the code can be removed later on. Well, verification doesn’t work for me. I don’t know why, though; maybe the problem can be resolved.
However why isn’t MicroID used for that purpose anyway? I guess I am not the only one who has added the MicroID <meta> tag to their blogs already. It is built for this purpose. Considering that MyBlogLog wants to support other open standards as well, I am confused why MicroID is not supported.
Tags: online profiles
-
I agree with you. There are many services around the net, where you have to validate a website you added to one of your profiles (like technorati, google Webmaster-Tools and many more) and every service needs a propriet way to authenticate this site. Some need a JS Code, some need a meta tag and so on… If you want to use all of them, your site is full of authentication codes.
The nicest way is, as you said, the way claim-id does it… with microId -
Pingback from MyBlogLog Features hCards at Not So Relevant on May 2, 2008 at 23:12
Comments are now closed.

View Comments