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Microformats Implementations and Implementors

This page lists the applications, plugins, sample code, services, tools as well as companies, developers and organizations which support microformats, along with the developers responsible for doing so that have chosen to be listed. This is only a partial list. If you know other companies implementing microformats, please add them and list their services and what specific microformats they support.

Formats

Most microformat specifications have an "implementations" section, e.g.:

• hCalendar, hCard, rel-tag, vote-links, XOXO etc.

In addition, some microformat specifications have separate implementation pages:

• xfn-implementations

Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools

Alphabetical listing of all applications, plugins (grouped with their app/tool), services and tools that implement microformats, along with the list of microformats that are supported, and the company and/or developers responsible for it.

As a user, the implementations listed below will automatically help you use microformats and help your data portability and interoperability with other apps and services.

Andy Hume Blog

• Andy Hume uses the hCard format to mark-up the names and URLs of commentors on his blog.
  • by Andy Hume

BlogMatrix

• BlogMatrix - user information marked as hCard, tag directories in xfolk/rel-tag, enclosures are marked as rel-enclosure.
  • by David Janes

Blogmarks.net

• Blogmarks.net publish user bookmarks in xfolk/rel-tag.

Community Server

• Community Server supports tagging posts with rel-tag, implements rel-nofollow on links in comments, and allows users to create link lists using XFN.

Drupal

Upcoming module for Drupal

• Drupal Upcoming.org syndication module emits hCalendar
  • by Brian Del Vecchio

EVDB

• EVDB / Eventful supports hCalendar for over 1,000,000 event listings and hCard for venues.

Firefox

• greasemonkey scripts for Firefox

Flickr People

• Flickr's profiles on its people pages supports both hCard and XFN.
  • by Cal Henderson

Flock

• Flock browser supports the rel-tag microformat.

Google Search

• Google Search - supports rel-nofollow

Google Creative Commons Search

• Google Creative Commons Search - supports rel-license

hCalendar creator

• hCalendar creator (originally published by Ryan King) is a javascript form for creating hCalendar events.
  • by Ryan King

hCard creator

• The open source hCard creator (originally published by Tantek) is a very simple, yet illustrative, open source user interface / form / script which creates an hCard in real-time as you type in a set of contact information.
  • by Tantek Çelik

hReview creator

• hReview creator (originally published by Ryan King) is a javascript form for creating hReviews.
  • by Ryan King

Ice Rocket

• [1] - supports rel-tag

iChat buddy list to hCards

• iChat buddy list to hCards - open source AppleScript to automatically convert one's buddy list in the MacOSX iChat AIM client into a valid XHTML 1.0 Strict list of hCards.
  • by Tantek Çelik

JSCalendar

• JSCalendar parses hCalendar and produces a displayable HTML table/CSS-based calendar.

Karova

• Karova announced support for microformats in their shopping cart library
  • (anybody know what specific microformats that Karova supports?)

Konqueror

• Konqueror - supports hCard

Laughing Squid Calendar

• The Laughing Squid Calendar events listings support hCalendar.
  • by Laughing Squid

LiveJournal

• LiveJournal - LiveJournal supports tagging posts with rel-tag.

LJFind

• LJ-Find - LJFind supports tagging posts with rel-tag.

Nature Network Boston

• Nature Network Boston, a social networking community for scientists, which uses hCard for user profiles and hCalendar for marking up events across the site.

Nutch

• rel-nofollow support added
• rel-tag support checked in

ODEO

• ODEO noted that they support microformats: rel-tag, rel-enclosure, XFN.

RFC2629.xslt

• rfc2629.xslt now attempts to generate hCard information (RFC2629 in an XML format for authoring RFCs and Internet Drafts, see example document)

Salesforce

• Salesforce supports hCard.
  • by Kingsley Joseph

Spanning Salesforce

• Spanning Salesforce supports hCalendar.

SPRACI

• SPRACI - nightlife/events - hCalendar published in events listings, aggregator can read hCalendar

Technorati Contacts Feed Service

• Technorati Contacts Feed Service is a deployment of X2V to convert hCards to vCard (.vcf) format.

Technorati Events Feed Service

• Technorati Events Feed Service is a deployment of X2V to convert hCalendar events to iCalendar (.ics) format.

Technorati Microformats Search

• Technorati Microformats Search. Search for contacts (hCard), events (hCalendar), or reviews (hReview) published on blogs and other web sites.
  • by Tantek Çelik, Ryan King, Kevin Marks, Josh Smith

Technorati Search

• Technorati Search supports and handles both vote-links and rel-nofollow for indicating whether a link should have any/positive/negative weighting towards the destination.
  • by Technorati Staff

Technorati Tags

• Technorati Tags pages aggreagte blog posts tagged with the rel-tag open tagging standard, in addition to recent tagged photos and links.

Upcoming.org

• Upcoming.org - hCalendar support in events listings and individual events.
  • by Andy Baio, Leonard Lin, Gordon Luk

WordPress

• WordPress supports XFN blogrolls through a very nice built-in user interface. (cf. xfn-implementations)
  • by Matt Mullenweg and friends

X2V

• brian suda has created several XSLT files to extract microformats from HTML. From that the X2V webservice/favelet emerged. The XSLT and favelet extracts hCard and to produces .vcf (vCard) files and hCalendar to produce .ics (iCal) files. Also in the labs is a universal XMDP validator and a site-wide search spider that recognizes 'no-follow', 'license' and other microformats so they can be used in a more semantic way when displaying search results.

Yahoo Creative Commons Search

• Yahoo Creative Commons Search - supports rel-license specifically to search for Creative Commons licensed content.

Yahoo Local

• Yahoo local supports hCard, hCalendar, and hReview.

Yahoo Tech

• Yahoo! Tech supports hReview.

Yahoo UK Movies

• Yahoo! UK Movies supports hReview.
  • by Mark Norman Francis

Companies / Developers / Organizations

(Considering moving all of these to an implementors page of its own).

Thanks to all of the hardworking developers and innovative companies and organizations for supporting microformats.

This is an alphabetical listing of all companies, developers (by last name) and organizations who have built and shipped at least one implementation (see above for details of each implementation) that users can use.

Please help complete this list! If you have coded support for microformats and don't see your name, add it! If your company supports microformats in its applications, add it!

Andy Hume

• Andy Hume Blog

David Janes

• BlogMatrix

Google

• Google Search
• Google Creative Commons Search

Laughing Squid

• Laughing Squid Calendar

Nature Publishing Group

• Nature Network Boston

SixApart

• LiveJournal

Technorati

• Technorati Contacts Feed Service
• Technorati Events Feed Service
• Technorati Microformats Search
• Technorati Search
• Technorati Tags

Yahoo

• Flickr People
• Upcoming
• Yahoo Creative Commons Search
• Yahoo Local
• Yahoo Tech
• Yhaoo UK Movies

Additional Sites

Additional static/read-only sites which enhanced their content with microformats.

Avon

• Avon - publishes all 40,000+ Avon representatives' contact info with the hCard microformat.

Flock About Page

• Flock About page supports hCard microformat.

Iowa Military Veterans Band

• Iowa Military Veterans Band

Nature Publishing Group

• Nature implement XOXO on various sites including the nature.com homepage, and are steadily rolling out microformats across their sites and titles.

Sunnyvale House Concerts

• Sunnyvale House Concerts supports hCard and hCalendar.

Technorati About Page

• Technorati publishes its own contact information as hCards: About page lists their Media Contact, and their Press page also lists their Press Contact, both as inline hCards.

University of Bath

• University of Bath Person Finder supports hCard

Web Essentials

• Web Essentials - supports hCard and hCalendar, e.g. in their list of presenters and program schedule.

general info

Some notes on initial thoughts around Guidelines and Strategies for Implementing Microformats