[uf-discuss] 2 billion hCards! gathering material for a "microformats.org turns 5" blog post

[Sarven Capadisli]

On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 19:18 -0700, Tantek Çelik wrote:
> According to Yahoo! Search Monkey, there are now over 2 billion hCards
> on the web:
> 
> http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkey%
> 3Acom.yahoo.page.uf.hcard
> 
> This is perhaps due to a few fairly large recent deployments:
> * BrightKite.com - all venues and user profiles have hCard (millions)
> * Gravatar - all profiles now have hCards (millions) - used on
> WordPress.com etc.
> 
> Some additional recent news:
> * microformats has 94% marketshare compared to alternatives (e.g.
> RDFa) according to Google (announced at the Semantic Technology
> conference)
>  -
> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_web_push_rich_snippets_usage_grow.php
>  - http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/richsnippets_june10b.jpg
> 
> I'm collecting these into material for "microformats.org turns 5" blog
> post - additional suggestions welcome!
> 
> http://microformats.org/wiki/microformats-turns-5
> 
> -- 
> http://tantek.com/

I'm not sure about exact numbers, but a StatusNet instance (e.g.,
http://identi.ca/ ), has hCards for all users and groups. It includes
representative hCards.

Updated wiki.

-Sarven