Global Multimedia Protocols Group

The Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik,[1] Eric A. Meyer, and Matt Mullenweg.[2] The group has developed methods to represent human relationships using XHTML called XHTML Friends Network (XFN) and XHTML Meta Data Profiles (XMDP), for use in weblogs.

It is an informal organization that engages in experiments in metamemetics.

It was first mentioned in 1992 by author Neal Stephenson in his novel Snow Crash.[3]

GMPG was founded to develop the initial principles for XFN, the XHTML Friends Network as an attempt for the creation of a simple way to express human relationships on the Web within HTML (machine-readable).

As of 2015, an analysis of the network of pages collected by Common Crawl found that the web host gmpg.org had the highest PageRank and third highest in-degree of all the hosts in the network.[4]

XFN - XHTML Friends Network

XFN provides a list of non-standard attribute values for the HTML attribute "rel", which is used within the "A" element for hyperlinks.

See also

References
  1. Jennifer Niederst Robbins (21 February 2006). Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference. "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". pp. 21–. ISBN 978-1-4493-7909-4.
  2. Skeen, Dan (27 March 2007). "Building a better blogosphere". Nine Entertainment Co. The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  3. Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash", chapter 3, Bantam Books (USA), June 1992 ISBN 0-553-08853-X
  4. Meusel, Robert; Vigna, Sebastiano; Lehmberg, Oliver; Bizer, Christian (2015). "The Graph Structure in the Web --- Analyzed on Different Aggregation Levels" (PDF). Journal of Web Science. 1: 33–47. doi:10.1561/106.00000003. hdl:2434/372411. Retrieved April 24, 2017.


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