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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFGGLJBhcRY Tantek talks about] the origins of [[XFN]], [[hCard]], and [[hCalendar]] as well as the need to focus on benefitting the user with improvements in [[user-interface]]. | ** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFGGLJBhcRY Tantek talks about] the origins of [[XFN]], [[hCard]], and [[hCalendar]] as well as the need to focus on benefitting the user with improvements in [[user-interface]]. | ||
* [http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4058/Microformats-Inbound-Marketing-for-Computers.aspx Microformats: Inbound Marketing for Computers!] - a nice intro blog post with good examples. | * [http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4058/Microformats-Inbound-Marketing-for-Computers.aspx Microformats: Inbound Marketing for Computers!] - a nice intro blog post with good examples. | ||
* [http://www.semanticreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=1&ed=6 SemanticReport] interviews Steve Ganz of [http://linkedin.com LinkedIn] about the upper and lower-case semantic web and their use of microformats (XFN, hCard, hResume, hEvent, and hReview.)] | |||
===Face-to-Face=== | ===Face-to-Face=== | ||
Including [[events]]. | Including [[events]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:29, 7 April 2008
This Week in Microformats - Week Beginning March 31th 2008
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a weekly summary of notable microformats activity from mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. It gets posted to the Microformats.org Blog on Sundays. Please add contributions to the headings below. (See the original This Week in Microformats posts for guidance on formatting; This Week #1, This Week #2.)
On the Wiki
From uf-discuss
- jCard, a data format for contacts, is being worked on, based on hCard and vCard. It should be useful as an output format from hCard parsers, easily readable by Javascript.
Developments on uf-new
On the web
- Related to the Yahoo deployment of hListing:
- Toluu apparently supports importing hCards - this needs some investigation, and incorporation into social network portability.
- SGFooCamp recordings re: microformats topics - see Jeremy's post
- Jeremy talked about the password anti-pattern.
- Leslie talks about the challenges of user-interface design, especially with respect to social-network-portability, and discusses what a user should or should not need to know about OpenID, and Satisfaction's hCard implementation.
- Tantek talks about the origins of XFN, hCard, and hCalendar as well as the need to focus on benefitting the user with improvements in user-interface.
- Microformats: Inbound Marketing for Computers! - a nice intro blog post with good examples.
- SemanticReport interviews Steve Ganz of LinkedIn about the upper and lower-case semantic web and their use of microformats (XFN, hCard, hResume, hEvent, and hReview.)]
Face-to-Face
Including events.
- 20080401 San Diego Web Standards Group launch with focus including microformats
- 20080627 Microformats vEvent during London Web Week
- Open Web Vancouver 2008 - Apr/14+15 @ Canada Place, Microformats talks include: Microformats and Distributed Social Networks by Chris Messina, Microformats with Ryan King and more