AndyMabbett at 18:00, 28 August 2007

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=Press 2006=

This page documents the press that [[microformats]] received in 2006. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].

== December ==

* [http://24ways.org/2006/styling-hcards-with-css 24 Ways: Styling hCards with CSS] The 24 Ways article for December 14 is John Allsopp's article on styling hCard using CSS (2006-12-14).

== November ==

* [http://accessify.com/news/2006/11/html-mastery/ Accessify.com announce ''HTML Mastery''] a new book by Paul Haine, with a chapter on microformats (2006-11-27).
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)], cover date December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew (tutorial not available on-line)
* [http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/magazines/macpeople.shtml MacPeople], a paper magazine about Macintosh in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 12/2006 issue, written by [http://nobi.com/nobilog/ Nobuyuki Hayashi].
* Cover story in iX 11/2006 p. 62-65: [http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2006/11/062/ Mehrwert-Markup] (German: additional value markup)
* [http://www.architecturejournal.net/2006/issue8/F5_Patterns/default.aspx Patterns for High-Integrity Data Consumption and Composition], in "The Architecture Journal", an online journal of web architecture published by Microsoft, mentions microformats as a way to maintain high data fidelity in loosely coupled, highly federated systems. "The considerable variety of data these days includes an extensive array of XML-based formats, as well as increasingly widespread, lighter weight data formats such as the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and microformats."

== October ==

* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/008472.html INFOWORLD TECH WATCH: "Bloggers speak out on IE 7"] - published: October 20, 2006. Mention/discussion of microformats by Tantek Çelik and Kristopher Tate.
* Practical Web Design, October 2006 issue, "Microformats" article by Rachel Andrews
* W3C [http://www.w3.org/2006/10/grddl-pressrelease Press Release] GRDDL Spec

== August ==

* [http://digital-web.com/articles/the_big_picture_on_microformats/ The Big Picture on microformats] - who's doing what with microformats right now - by John Allsopp - Published August 28th, 2006.
* [http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/how-to-use-microformats Add microformats magic to your site] by John Allsopp - Published August 25th, 2006.

== July ==

* [http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1526 Knowledge at Wharton: Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats] - Published: July 20, 2006

== June ==

* [http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/584 Microformats, PHP and hKit], from devzone.zend.com, a PHP developer resource, 28th June.
* [http://www.mercurytide.com/knowledge/white-papers/microformats Building a more semantic web with microformats], from Mercurytide, 20th June.

== May ==

* [http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,1961106,00.asp DevSource: An Developer's Introduction to Microformats by Phil Haack, May 11.]
** See also [http://haacked.com/archive/2006/05/11/IntroductionToMicroformatsArticle.aspx Phil Haack's blog post about the article].

== March ==

* (need to backfill these - there were a bunch which we forgot to include)

== February ==

* [http://book.mycom.co.jp/wd/ Web Designing], a popular paper magazine for web industry in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 03/2006 issue.
* [http://www.release1-0.com/freshproduce/newideas_socialtime.cfm Release 1.0 / Ideas / New Ideas that Matter: Time as a social object], February 16. Video interviews composite, including a bit on microformats.
* [http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/ SXSW 2006 Web Awards Finalists], February 3rd. [http://microformats.org microformats.org] is a finalist in the "Technical Achievement" category for "the sites that are re-inventing and re-defining the technical parameters of our online experience".

== January ==

* [http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html Google Web Authoring Statistics, January 20]
*# The home page of the study "[http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html Web Authoring Statistics]" itself both mentions “microformats.org” and links to http://microformats.org .
*# The "[http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/pageheaders.html Page Headers]” page notes that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] microformat is the most popular HTML metadata profile: “…people do use the profile attribute, though. The three most-often used values are http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/, and http://gmpg.org/xfn/11. This makes XFN the most popular HTML metadata profile!”
*# The “[http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html a element]” page found that three of the most popular ‘rel’ attribute values were microformats: #1 [[rel-nofollow]], #2 [[rel-license]], #5 [[rel-tag]].
* [http://www.philoneist.com/50226711/interview_with_technorati_marketing_director_derek_gordon.php Philoneist: Interview With Technorati Marketing Director Derek Gordon by Jonathan G. Cohen, January 11]
* [http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20060101232742 #2 on the list of Best Web 2.0 Blogs, January 2]

== Related pages ==
{{press-related pages}}

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