MyBlogLog Supports Microformats but not MicroID

February 15, 2008 in Microformats by Carsten Pötter | Comments

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
  • I have given up trying to verify ownership of my blog with outside sites, until they all adopt microid. Microid is the way it should be done it is easy and could be universally adopted by any site trying to verify a sites ownership.
  • Carsten Pötter
    Yep, MicroID is a pretty simple way of verifying sites. At least MyBlogLog users can verify their profile pages with MicroID now.
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