Global Multimedia Protocols Group
Encyclopedia
The Global Multimedia Protocols Group (GMPG) was founded in March 2003 by Tantek Çelik
, Eric Meyer
, and Matt Mullenweg
. 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.
Tantek Çelik
Tantek Çelik is a computer scientist of Turkish-American descent and was the Chief Technologist at Technorati. He is one of the principal editors of several CSS Specifications....
, Eric Meyer
Eric Meyer
Eric A. Meyer is an American web design consultant and author. He is best known for his advocacy work on behalf of web standards, most notably Cascading Style Sheets , a technique for managing how HTML is displayed...
, and Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg is an online social media entrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his development of the free and open source web software, WordPress...
. The group has developed methods to represent human relationships using XHTML
XHTML
XHTML is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely-used Hypertext Markup Language , the language in which web pages are written....
called XHTML Friends Network (XFN)
XHTML Friends Network
XHTML Friends Network is an HTML microformat developed by Global Multimedia Protocols Group that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links. XFN enables web authors to indicate relationships to the people in their blogrolls by adding one or more keywords as the rel...
and XHTML Meta Data Profiles (XMDP), for use in weblogs.