rel="friend" ?

Hi ...

Does anyone here knows what rel="friend" means ?

Thanks

 

In the social web, this is a way to represent a hyperlink, making it more valuable and informing machines/bots about the link
Read this for more details
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(software)
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML_Friends_Network

 

where did you find that word?
is it one of php code? or what?

 

Check this thread: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1752768

This is the XFN link system. XFNâ„¢ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
In the thread above I explained it and put some references to get more detailed information.

 

Where did you find it ? On your code ?

 

No idea heard first time...

 

It may be coder's special using?

I've not seen it before.

 

is having this a good thing or does it weaken if you use it to often?

 

This make link more meaningful for search engines.
There are other types of RDF That are many similar tags

 

This is the first time I'm hearing of this. Learn somethint new everyday.

 

me too

it's the first time I hearing this word

 

The rel attribute specifies the relationship between the current document and the linked document - http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/att_a_rel.asp