[uf-discuss] FYI: Jeff Jarvis on microformats and Google Base

[S. Sriram]

From: "Tantek Çelik" <tantek at cs.stanford.edu>
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> How do you think the microformats community should respond to (or
otherwise
> engage) Google Base?
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I think 'google base' and the centralized/closed
nature of it's offering offers microformats a unique
opportunity to showcase it's potential by building an
'open base' that any/every body can parse.

The Internet Archive and/or commercenet could provide
the necessary bandwidth/storage.

S. Sriram