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Microformats Implementations and Implementers

This page lists the applications, plugins, sample code, services, tools that produce or consume microformats as well as companies, developers, and organizations who implement the aforementioned. This is only a partial list. If you know other companies implementing tools for microformats, please add them and list their services/tools and what specific microformats they support.

Implementations vs. Examples in the Wild

This page is only for implementations of tools that publish or consume microformats. Companies simply using microformats on their pages/sites belong in the "Examples in the wild" sections of those respective microformats, e.g.:

• hCard Examples in the wild
• hCalendar Examples in the wild
• etc.

Editing This Page

This page is primarily composed of two big lists:

• Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools
• Companies / Developers / Organizations

When you find an implementation, first make sure that it is actually an implementation as opposed to just an example in the wild of publishing microformats (see above).

Second, note the name of the tool or service separately from the name of the developer(s) who wrote the tool/service.

Add a third level heading with the name of the tool/service ( === Name of Tool === ) to the Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools section, sorted alphabetically by name of tool/service. Add a top level list item (*) just below the heading with an external link to the tool/service, along with a link to evidence of their support for microformats, and mention (and locally link) each microformat that is supported.

Add a nested list item * by Name of Developer and local hyperlink the Name of Developer to a fragment identifier in this page, e.g. Apple Computer would be linked like this: [[implementations#Apple_Computer|Apple Computer]]

Check to see if there is an entry for the developer in the list of Companies / Developers / Organizations, if not add a third level heading with the name of the developer ( === Name of Developer === ), alphabetically sorted by name of developer. Add a link to the developer's home page followed by "has implemented microformats in:".

In the entry for the developer, add a list item * Name of Tool and local hyperlink the Name of Tool to a fragment identifier in this page, e.g. X2V would be linked like this: [[implementations#X2V|X2V]]

Save the page and make sure that each fragment ID local hyperlink when clicked scrolls you to the right spot (for the developer, and for the tool). Make any fix-up edits as necessary. That's it!

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

This is an 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.

Please help complete this list! If you know of additional apps/plugins/services/tools that support microformats, please add them!

Note: this section is only for listing specific implementations. The list of implementors is in the Companies / Developers / Organizations section below.

.Mac Webmail

• The .Mac Webmail service now supports hcard.
  • by Apple Computer

Blinksale

• Blinksale uses hCard standard throughout for people and companies.

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.

Citycita

• Citycita supports hCal in all event pages for local social groups.
  • by Rubio Jamin

Cork'd

• Cork'd supports hCard for user profiles, hReview for wine reviews, along with rel-tag for tagging wines as announced in Pairing Wine and Microformats
  • by Dan Cederholm

Dreamweaver

Microformats Extensions

• Dreamweaver Microformats Extensions (download) support authoring hCard, hCalendar, XFN, rel-tag, rel-license as announced by Drew
  • by Drew McLellan

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.

Finetoothcog

• Stolen Bikes now supports hCalendar for reported stolen bikes. Also provides iCal subscription.

Firefox

• firefox-extensions
• greasemonkey scripts for Firefox
• Mozilla are "brainstorming" developments for Firefox 3.0 and beyond, and have a page on microformat handling at http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Feature_Brainstorming:Microformat_Handling

Tails Firefox Extension

• Tails Firefox Extension 0.3 by Calvin Yu
  • Latest Release: Tails Firefox Extension 0.3.3 (Firefox 1.4+, Flock 0.7+)

Tails Export Firefox Extension

• Tails Firefox Extension 0.3.1 by Robert de Bruin
  • Latest Release: Tails Firefox Extension 0.3.1 (Firefox 1.5+)

Gravatar Commenters as hCards

• Andy Hume added code to his blogging software to automatically mark-up the names and URLs of commenters on his blog with hCard.
  • by Andy Hume
  • Andy - any chance of open sourcing your code to turn Gravatars into hCards?

faberNovel

• faberNovel supports hCard
  • by Marie-Caroline Lanfranchi

Flickr People

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

Flickr Photos

• Flickr's geo tagged photos are marked up with the geo microformat.

Flock Web Browser

• The Flock web browser supports the rel-tag microformat.
  • by Flock

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

hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5

• hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5 as announced by Drew McLellan

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.

Konqueror

• Konqueror - supports hCard

Last.fm

• Last.fm - Last.fm supports hCalendar

Laughing Squid Calendar

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

LinkedIn

• LinkedIn - LinkedIn includes hCard on profiles and hReview on service provider recommendations
  • by Chris Saccheri

LiveJournal

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

LJFind

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

Microformat Base

• Microformat Base
  • by Scott Reynen

Microformat Bookmarklet Overlay

• Microformats Bookmarklet for Safari, Firefox and Camino, supports hCard and hCalendar and allows the user to import individual microformats on the fly.
  • by Remy Sharp

Microformat Parser for Ruby

• Microformat Parser for Ruby
  • by Assaf Arkin

Nature Network Boston

• Nature Network Boston, a social networking community for scientists, supports rel-tag, hCard for user profiles and hCalendar for marking up events across the site.
  • by Nature Publishing Group

Nature Protocols

• Nature Protocols, a forum for scientists to upload and comment on protocols, supports hCard and XOXO.
  • by Nature Publishing Group

Nutch

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

ODEO

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

Profiler

• Profiler works as a proxy service adding microformat profiles to documents that appear to contain microformats.

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.

Sivitools

Sivitols is a Java library for microformats. Currently only the xFolk RC1 standard is implemented, but additional microformat support is planned. This library is being written and maintained for a tag sharing project undertaken by Video Vertigo.

Annoucement, Docs

SPRACI

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

Sunnyvale House Concerts

• Sunnyvale House Concerts supports hCard and 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 aggregate blog posts tagged with the rel-tag open tagging standard, in addition to recent tagged photos and links.

Textpattern

Microformats Plugin

• Textpattern Microformats Plugin supports authoring hCard, hCalendar, hReview, XFN, rel-tag, rel-license in the Textpattern CMS/blogging tool
  • by Chris Casciano

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

WP Microformatted Blogroll

• The WP Microformatted Blogroll 0.2 Wordpress plugin by Chris Messina supports hCard and XFN.

WP Themes

• Sandbox is a theme for Wordpress that uses hAtom.
  • The theme is also available to accounts on the <username>.wordpress.com hosting service.
• Strangelove is a modification of the default Wordpress theme (Kubrick) with hAtom support.
  • It points to the hAtom2Atom proxy service as the link for syndication feeds.

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.
  • by Brian Suda

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

Validators

This is an alphabetical listing of tools that have been created to validate implementations, and which formats they support.

Please add to this section if you have a validator/checker, no matter which or how many microformats you test for.

rel-lint

• rel-lint supports validation of rel-tag and XFN by Drew McLellan

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!

Note: please add direct links to specific applications, plugins, services, or tools to the list of Applications / Plugins / Services / Tools and then link to those from their implementor with a fragment identifier link, e.g. to link to the "Cork'd" wine review community:

• [[implementations#Cork'd|Cork'd]]

Similarly, for additional sites, put direct links to them in the Additional Sites section and then link to them from their implementor with a fragment identifier link.

Apple Computer

Apple Computer has implemented microformats in:

• .Mac Webmail

Andy Hume

• Andy Hume Blog

Assaf Arkin

• Microformat Parser for Ruby

Brian Suda

• X2V

Chris Casciano

• Textpattern Microformats Plugin

Chris Saccheri

• LinkedIn

Calvin Yu

• Calvin Yu blog: Don't Forget to Plant It!
• Tails Firefox Extension

Dan Cederholm

• Cork'd

David Janes

• BlogMatrix

David Long and James Myers

• ZDNet

Drew McLellan

• Microformats Extensions
• hKit Microformats Toolkit for PHP5
• rel-lint Validator Tool

Flock

• Flock Web Browser

Google

• Google Search
• Google Creative Commons Search

Kent Brewster

• Extensible friends -- JSON + XFN and bookmarklet

Kingsley Joseph

Kingsley Joseph:

• Salesforce

Laughing Squid

• Laughing Squid Calendar

Marie-Caroline Lanfranchi

Marie-Caroline Lanfranchi:

• faberNovel

Nature Publishing Group

• Nature Publishing Group are steadily rolling out microformats across their sites and titles. Current implementations include the following online services:
  • Nature Network Boston
  • Nature Protocols
• as well the following additional site(s):
  • Nature Home Page

Robert de Bruin

• Robert de Bruin' s blog: Bor de Wolf
• Tails Export Firefox Extension

Scott Allan Wallick

• Sandbox Wordpress Theme w/hAtom Support

Scott Reynen

• Microformat Base

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
• Yahoo UK Movies

Needs Fixing

• Re-format author names and links to display Surname Firstname - for better indexing, and complete cross-linking Frances Berriman

The following have been moved from the sections above due to problems, stated below:

Web Essentials

• Web Essentials - supports hCard and hCalendar, e.g. in their list of presenters and program schedule.
  • John McKerrell tried to look at the site on 24th October 2006 but could not access the site, server didn't seem to be up.

Other

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