Supersonic Feet

Tantek Çelik's slides from his talk on Social Network Portability are a very good, quick read as an introduction to supporting social network portability on your own site/service using microformats.

The slides include real, practical demonstrations of how it can be done and having made a bit of a start (i.e. not a good-enough start) on making bragster profiles support hCard and XFN, it's pushed me to get it sorted on bragster as soon as possible, both in terms of properly marking up the profiles as well as potentially doing some importing of hCard/XFN info.

A 2-minute play with mofo shows it's not hard to do the importing bit, so (dev-time time allowing) I'll be seeing how we can use it to good effect on bragster. Satisfaction's signup form is a pretty good example of a first step in hCard importing - helping you fill out the signup form quicker by pulling some of the data you've already given to another social network.