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Christian Crumlish  
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 More options Jul 23 2010, 4:28 pm
From: Christian Crumlish <x...@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:28:41 -0700
Local: Fri, Jul 23 2010 4:28 pm
Subject: Re: Zawinsky principle of social software, "... is single", "... is in a relationship", which (new?) verb?

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:21 PM, Tantek Çelik <tan...@cs.stanford.edu>wrote:

> Let's solve the simple cases simply. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'll buy that (and the proposed "pave the cowpaths" approach).

re:

> These kinds of questions were brought up with the launch of XFN seven

years ago, but they were all theoretical.  XFN is broadly implemented

web-wide today.

I'm relatively familiar with XFN but wasn't sure how broad (or deep)
adoption has been. Seems like there are some cute artifacts in XFN (like
"muse") - don't they go beyond supporting the 80% cases?

-x-


 
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