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Overview

The goals of the "rel=me" DIY Project are:

• Educate the DataProtability Project community about the "rel=me" microformat
• Showcase example uses of "rel=me" in the wild
• Facilitate users and developers to:
  • Mark up content under their control with "rel=me" tags
  • Build tools for simplifying "rel=me" markup
  • Create applications to leverage "rel=me" tags

Part of the DIY Project

Education

Suggested reading:

• http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-me
• http://microformats.org/about/
• http://ungeekdapo.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/a-simple-data-portability-project-or-is-it/

Showcases

Sites and Services:

• Digg (http://digg.com/) - e.g. http://digg.com/users/tantek
• Identoo (http://identoo.com/) - e.g. sample profile (http://identoo.com/dirk.olbertz)
• LinkedIn (http://www.linkedin.com/) - e.g. http://www.linkedin.com/in/steveganz rel="me" is applied to "My Website" and "My Blog" on your public profile.
• MyBlogLog (http://www.mybloglog.com) - e.g. http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/jbond/
• Plaxo (http://plaxo.com/) - e.g. http://joseph.myplaxo.com/
• Pownce (http://pownce.com/) - login, go to your profile, and copy the URL which should start with http://pownce.com/
• Technorati (http://technorati.com/) - e.g. http://technorati.com/people/technorati/tantek
• TypePad (http://typepad.com/) - e.g. http://www.markpasc.typepad.com/
• Videntity.org (http://videntity.org/) - e.g. http://danda.videntity.org/
• Vox (http://vox.com/) - e.g. http://anil.vox.com/

Personal Pages:

• J. Trent Adams: []http://xri.net/=jtrentadams/( about)
• Julian Bond: YASN-Roll lLHS. http://www.voidstar.com
• Kevin Marks: http://kevinmarks.com, http://epeus.blogspot.com
• Daniela Barbosa: http://danielabarbosa.com , http://danielabarbosa.blogspot.com

Helpful Links

• XFN Creator (supports "rel=me"): http://gmpg.org/xfn/creator
• Google SocialGraph Parse Tester (supports "rel=me"): http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/docs/testparse.html
• Alternate wrapper to GSG Parse Tester (thanks to Julian Bond): http://voidstar.com/sgtestparser/
• XFN Explorer with sample PHP source for php4 and php5: http://voidstar.com/xfnexplorer/
• Social Graph API - Site Connectivity Demo: http://socialgraph-resources.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/findyours.html