# 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)

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