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XFN Tools

Creating

Blogging

WordPress

• Matt Mullenweg
• An open-source Weblogging package that offers XFN annotation of its internally-stored list of links.
• • WordPress home

Autoxfn

• Buzz Anderson
• A module for Bloxsom that adds XFN annotations to links in an entry.
• • Autoxfn

Moveable Type template

• D. Keith Robinson
• Allows MT authors to build a list of links that carry XFN annotation.
• • XFN Friendly Link List With Movable Type

blo.gs

• Jim Winstead, Jr.
• Allows you to add information regarding your relationship to the people behind the blogs in your favorites list.
• • blo.gs

Communities

Metafilter

• Arthur Jennings
• Metafilter users can now add XFN information to their links to other MeFi users.
• • Metafilter

Journalspace

• The "friends" area of this service allows the addition of XFN information to the links.
• • Journalspace

Editing

Exefen

• Matt Mullenweg
• A Web-based interface that allows quick XFN annotation of all the links on a page. You can save the result and paste it back into your HTML source.
• • Exefen 1.0

Nvu

• Daniel Glazman
• Integrates XFN editing into its hyperlink editing dialogs.
• • Nvu

Wizards

XFN Creator

• Matt Mullenweg
• 1.1 update by Tantek Çelik
• A Web-based interface for quickly creating a link with the proper XFN values.
• Available in the following languages:
  • English
  • French (translation by Serge K. Keller)
  • Italian (translation by Serge K. Keller and Cécile Matthey)
  • Spanish-Argentina (translation by Manuel Razzari)
  • Dutch (translation by Jeroen Budts — see related post: XFN 1.1 en XFN Creator)
  • Czech (translation by Josef Petrák)
  • Japanese (translation by Kazuhito Kidachi)

Browsing

Searching

RubHub

• Phil McCuskey
• A search engine for the XFN space, showing the social network of XFN-annotated sites. Includes top-10 lists for "largest social network" and "most inspiring".
• • Rubhub.com

Viewing

RubHubIt

• Jonas Luster
• A favelet that looks up the currently-viewed site on Rubhub.
• • RubHubIt (drag to Favorites toolbar to install)

XFN Dumper

• Ben
• A favelet that will open a new window listing all the XFN-annotated links in the current page and the XFN values they carry.
• • XFN Dumper v0.21 (drag to Favorites toolbar to install)