Friday, December 18, 2009

My profiles are connected with rel="me"

Last night, I finally connected all my profiles using rel="me" tag suggested by XHTML Friends Network (xfn). I used Plaxo's Online Identity Verifier to verify that xfn crawlers could go from one page to the other. Indeed, my LinkedIn profile, my profile on Google and my Plaxo profile did use rel="me" but the crawler would just stop after 1 visit. So, I had to change directions a bit. But now, everything seems to be connected. Here is what it says now:
>> *** Done! Here's what we found:

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaydalal
 claims: http://loudvchar.blogspot.com
 claims: http://sites.google.com/site/sanjaydalal
 claims: http://wiki.collectionspace.org/display/~sanjay.dalal@berkeley.edu/Home
 claims: http://www.blogger.com/profile/07345321706379617116
     is: http://www.google.com/profiles/107889855647471469473
 claims: http://www.plaxo.com/profile/show/51540603517?pk=c1185a9db8102a44e22e53533ee18ee3136f9f5e&sbQuery=sanjay%20dalal


I realize that Google Sites does not allow XFN crawlers to go forward. They seem to override rel="me" with rel="nofollow". I wish I could point to my CollectionSpace profile from there.

My profile on CollectionSpace is getting a lot of comment spam. I will have to trace where the link to the profile is available and put rel="nofollow" there.

Building an open social graph could be fun!

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