<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>I'm David Beach. I work for Yahoo! in Yahoo! Shopping. I'm interested in creating a microformat for product information. It's possible that this could be very useful for merchants, manufacturers, and aggregators. I think that this would complement hReview and hListing.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Does anyone know if there has been any progress in this area? I've done some research and haven't found anything specific. I'd be interested in collaborating with folks to create such a standard.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thoughts?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Thanks,</DIV><DIV>-beach</DIV>--<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; ">David Beach</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; "><A href="mailto:beach@itsbeach.com">beach@itsbeach.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;; font-family: Verdana; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10px; "><A href="http://www.itsbeach.com">http://www.itsbeach.com</A></SPAN></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><A href="http://shopping.yahoo.com">http://shopping.yahoo.com</A></SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>