[uf-discuss] Tim Burners Lee's Blog support Microformats ...

Colin Barrett timber at lava.net
Wed Aug 23 15:31:31 PDT 2006


Hah, I just have to applaud you for the title.

Dapper+microformats seems quite powerful. Keep up the good work :)

-Colin

On Aug 23, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Sebastian Küpers wrote:

> It's done - we have now a simple microformats implementation in  
> Dapper.
> And know what?
>
> Does Tim Berners Lee's Blog support Microformats ...
> ... not natively - but now it does with a API I created with Dapper
> and the newest modifications! hAtom and hCard :))
>
> You find a article on my blog:
> http://pixelsebi.com/2006-08-24/does-tim-burners-lees-blog-support-microformats/
>
> Feedback wanted!
> Cheers,
>
> Sebastian
>
>
> On 8/23/06, Sebastian Küpers <sebastian.kuepers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Jon Aizen is still awake and here is the anwser:
>>
>> the good news:
>> --------------------
>> he is excited about microformats and wants to implement them in the
>> dapper html output. defenitly a "go" he said. GREAT!
>>
>> the bad news:
>> --------------------
>> 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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>> > > > > >
>> > > > > >
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