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3rd July 2008 - Link Blog

Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web. Ben Ward’s tour de force of practical tools and techniques for building out the distributed social web, using XFN and hCard to represent the data. If you only read one article on portable social networks, make it this one.

Posted 3rd July 2008 at 9:08 am

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