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Example using XFN and Optimus to find friends on Afrigator

Jun 03

This is actually a new feature on I’ve implemented on Afrigator, but it could prove to be quite a handy thing on a lot of other social networks. It is always difficult when you sign up with a new social network to find your “real” friends. You either have to search for every one of them or you have to browse through a friend’s friends to try and find them. It was really easy and simple to implement, so I cannot see why more of these kind of features won’t happen. It would be quite cool to see this in something like Blueworld… hint, nudge, wink…

A special thanks to Optimus over at Microformatique and the super talented Dmitry Baranovskiy for taking the parsing headaches out the way.

We as bloggers almost always maintain some form of blog roll. This blog roll carried little value to yourself as the only people who ever benefits in terms of back links are the people on there. This has changed. You can now use your blogroll to find your friends on Afrigator. The only condition is that your blogroll links must be marked up according to XFN standards. That might seem daunting or scary, but if you use the brilliant Wordpress platform, it is a breeze actually! (I’ll demonstrate in another screen cast)

For more information on how to do it and how it works, see this video:

Using XFN to find friends on a Social Network from Stii Pretorius on Vimeo.