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The Social Graph, and why rel=”me” is doomed to failure
- SingAlong 18y agorel="me" isn't going to vanish. They would just get better with better services. So why is requiring reciprocation a problem? This isn't a problem either. Why take a pessimistic peep into everything? What if Simon Wilson likes to show off his other profiles? When X is on twitter and has a blog too, then X would like to show off his blog on Twitter and hence link to that too(or maybe not). Once a good number of frequently used services add XFN or FOAF support(a lot do), it would be easier for other smaller services to connect the users and their friends thru this link relationship. This might not be useful for the 'common' or 'average' users the author mentions but would be a gold mine for developers to make use of.