[uf-discuss] dapper APIs for microformats search

[Sebastian Küpers]

Jon Aizen is still awake and here is the anwser:

the good news:
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he is excited about microformats and wants to implement them in the
dapper html output. defenitly a "go" he said. GREAT!

the bad news:
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he asked me, if I want to do it by myself, because it would be faster
and he's not so into the hole microformat thing ;) I am a informationc
architect and not a programmer - so I don't wanna touch it from the
code part - i can only support it from the format side.

Any volunteers out there, who wanna help out with programming skills?

Thanks,
Sebastian

On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> know what? accidental I just had a chat with Jon Aizen from Dapper and
> I explained microformats to him, because he had not heard of them,
> yet!
>
> (allways a surprise to me, if somebody hasn't hear of them at all)
>
> It would be very easy for him to use the field and group names, you
> can define and nest within Dapper by yourself, for the class names of
> the html output of dapper.
>
> Tatatataaaaaa - there you are: Than everybody could create a
> microformated html output of every singel website - that would be
> great, wouldn't it?
>
> I am only waiting for a feasibilty check from his site - but this
> can't be rocketscience for him, I think ...
>
> ... so I am excited ... I will keep you informed ;)
>
> On 8/23/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ah. And then the limitations of my kode-foo started to show.
> >
> > Ok, I'll take your word for it.
> >
> > The moment I can drag and drop data from one site to another using
> > Dapper, I'll be happy.
> >
> > Does Dapper take the place of a Greasemonkey script of could you use
> > Dapper to normalize data across any site -- so effectively, those
> > holdouts who aren't using microformats could be rewritten with Dapper
> > to offer microformatted content so that extensions like Tails would
> > work even if they're not natively using microformats?
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > Oh - I havn't read you email thorough enough,
> > >
> > > what you can do with them ... the easiest example ist to build a RSS
> > > feed with the dapp to watch searches. It's nearly the same now, as the
> > > watchlist oder the "Pubsub" Modell. You use the Technorati Search to
> > > Subcribe to a Keyword for a special Microformat. In this case hCard or
> > > hReview.
> > >
> > > But you could also build your own Microformats Search on your Blog and
> > > access the search results by XML.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > >
> > > On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > I am surprised, that you don't have heard of Dapper?
> > > > You can easily bild a API for every Webpage you want with Dapper.
> > > >
> > > > You just give Dapper a few example pages and than you start defining
> > > > with a special editor, which "blocks" on a page a what kind of content
> > > > and dapper tries to learn and understand this.
> > > >
> > > > Than Dapper will create a API around the site and offers you the
> > > > interfaces, as you see it in my cases.
> > > >
> > > > Great isn't it ;) So if any website thinks, it could lookup
> > > > information of his users ... dapper is the revolution :))
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > Sebastian
> > > >
> > > > On 8/23/06, Chris Messina <chris.messina at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > This seems like a great use of the Dapper technology but I can't
> > > > > figure out what to do with your Dapps... What can I do with them? ;)
> > > > >
> > > > > Chris
> > > > >
> > > > > On 8/22/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > > hey folks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I've just set up two APIs with Dapper for Technorati's Microformats
> > > > > > hCard and hReview searches.
> > > > > > So now you can track the latest "Harry Potter" hReviews with RSS for example :)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Here my blog article about it:
> > > > > > http://pixelsebi.com/2006-08-23/dapper-apis-for-microformats-search/
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Feedback wanted!
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Sebastian
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