Steve Mallett, creator of de.lirio.us, has formatted their folksonomy listing pages in xFolk:
I set up de.lirio.us to do this [publish using xFolk markup] a few minutes ago. I must say I do like this a better than the technorati tag format thing. I like technorati, but it's a bit too technorati-centric.
Conversation on tags & liberating tagged data - I did it anyway | Fooworks - 'blog of Steve Mallett
Steve's major issue was how using xFolk would affect the end user, a point raised just today by Tantek Çellik in regard to gaining acceptance for microformats.
For the record, my take on this is that microformats are actually a back-end technology for your average user. Users are interacting with whatever interface you give them and are happy to see their input pop out as a web page without a whole lot of work on their part. The fact that the resulting web page uses a microformat is irrelevant for users in the short term.
Microformats are, however, relevant for users in gaining Internet visibility, the number one reason most companies consider engaging blogging PR firms. When users increase the semantic content of their markup, their Internet visibility through search and other aggregation services increases. Increased Internet visibility is a benefit that even mom-and-pop end-users get. That is a definite selling point, and de.lirio.us users get it with no extra work.
[Update: xFolk, as Steve implemented it, is fully compatible with Technorati's reltag standard. xFolk just adds semantics beyond what reltag provides.]
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