Social Media Bio Version 2.0

Posted on February 9, 2008
Filed Under Building work | | Written by Gary Reid

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Last year Rohit Bhargava blogged about creating a social media bio and then he created one.

His reasoning was

For several months now, I have been struggling with my own social media identity crisis.Â It is a crisis that many others will be able to relate to and has mainly to do with the multiple identities I have on sites across the Internet.

I really liked what he did but thought with a few additions it could be great. So for months I’ve been meaning to get around to it.

I’m coming at this from a slightly different angle, as well as Rohit’s reasons I wanted to

Make sure the bio became the authority for ‘me’ online
Extend it so that it included semantic mark-up
Enable it to be submitted to Pingerati
Use it as an experiment to see if it would be possible to roll this out as a service for anyone and everyone
Make it less reliant on PR features such as head shots, awards and downloadable bio’s
Automate gathering and dissemination of a friends list (XFN) using OpenSocial

The first phase was to create a semantically marked up bio, which I’ve done here.

The bio makes full use of Microfomats - hcard, geo, adr, xfn

If you already have the Operator toolbar installed you’ll see the Microformats, if not then go get it.

This is work in progress so let me know what you think. The next major step is to see if the XFN part can be automated using the OpenSocial API.

The only problem I can see is whether Pingerati (launched almost 2 years ago) is still live, as it appears not much is happening

Microformats