presentations

microformats presentations

This page lists various presentations, sessions, papers and posters which have provided explanations and discusions of both microformats in general, and specific microformats. Check out microformats events for upcoming presentations. See also microformats podcasts and screencasts for audio/video presentations and discussions.

Most recent presentations/sessions listed first.

2006

• May 24, Kevin Lawver presented A Microformat and Proposal For Interoperable Widgets
• May 18, The Intelligent Design of Microformats by Ryan King at XTech 2006. (slides).
• May 16, Is Web 2.0 Changing the Software Industry? by Chris Messina at Mesh Conference
• May 16, Microformats from the Ground Up by Brian Suda and Ryan King @ XTech 2006
• April 25, At DemoCamp #5 in Toronto, David Janes demonstrated BlogMatrix his platform for publish which supports microformats. (see Accordionguy blogpost).
• April 23, Microformats and the Future of Syndication by Nate Aune, AdaptiveWave (CM Pros Summit, San Francisco, CA)
• April 22, Intro to Microformats, Barcamp Bangalore, Bangalore, India, (photos 1, 2, 3)
• March 16, Reading 2.0 (see Tim O'Reilly's notes), San Francisco, CA
  • Building with MicroFormats, Chad Dickerson, Yahoo
• March 13, SXSW Interactive, Room 17AB, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
  • Microformats: Evolving the Web, 11:30am-12:30pm
• March 11, SXSW Interactive, Room 17AB, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX
  • Creating Building Blocks For Independents, 5pm-6pm
  • photos
• March 7, O'Reilly Emerging Technologies (ETech) Conference, Manchester Grand Hyatt, Ballroom, San Diego, CA
  • Microformats intro and lightning demos at O'Reilly ETech conf., 5:30pm-6:15pm
  • photos
• March 1, W3C Technical Plenary Day, Hotel Sofitel Cannes Mandelieu Royal Casino, main auditorium, 605 avenuedu Général de Gaulle, BP 49, MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE CEDEX, 06212 MANDELIEU LA NAPOULE, FRANCE
  • Microformats panel at W3C Technical Plenary Day, 10:30am-11:30am
    • Ian Hickson (Google) - "A billion documents and no semantics anywhere" (NEED LINK TO SLIDES OR STUDY)
    • Tantek Çelik (Technorati) - "What are microformats?"
    • Håkon Wium Lie (Opera) - "Cascading Markup Languages — boom!" (NEED LINK TO SLIDES)
    • Rohit Khare (CommerceNet) - "Where Angle Brackets Fear to Tread"
    • Dan Connolly (W3C) - "Microformats for practical Semantic Web deployment"
    • Q&A
      • "I'm very excited about microformats. What I really want is to get all the data out of databases and expressed as part of the Semantic Web." - Tim Berners-Lee. (emphasis added)
  • "Services and the Web" by Mark Nottingham (Yahoo), 12:05pm-12:10pm.
    • Request to W3T/W3M: Go After The "Real" Web: Apache, PHP, Mozilla, Intermediaries and Caches, Microformats, JSON... (emphasis added)
  • Attendees voted the "Microformats" session the best session of the Plenary Day. 6:17pm.
• February 24, Yahoo Speakers Series, Yahoo Mission College Campus, 2nd floor conference room, 2821 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054
  • Microformats: Evolving the Web
• January 18, Apple Web Publishers internal meeting, Apple Computer, Star Trek conference room, 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014, 12-1:40pm
  • Microformats: Evolving the Web
• January 10, SD Forum Emerging Technologies SIG, Room H1, Cubberley Community Center, Palo Alto, CA, 7-9pm
  • Ryan King's presentation, Ernie Prabhakar's presentation, Rohit Khare's presentation
  • Microformats panel: Ryan King, Ernie Prabhakar, Rohit Khare, Tantek Çelik, Kevin Marks

2005

• December 15, Syndicate Conference, San Francisco, CA
  • Microformats - Emerging syndication types
• November 26, TorCamp, Teehan+Lax, 460 Richmond St. W, Toronto, ON, CA
  • powerpoints (sorry)
  • photo
• November 12, THINK Conference, Santa Cruz room, Chaminade hotel, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
  • presentation-think-2005-11-12
• November 10, (location unknown), by Kevin Yank of SitePoint Pty. Ltd.
  • Innovating on top of standards - Not around them
• October 5, Web 2.0 Conference, Olympic Room, Argent Hotel, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Microformats Examples
• October 4, OSAF, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Microformats: Evolving the Web
• September 30, Web Essentials 05, Guthrie auditorium, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • Microformats: Evolving the Web (MP3 - incomplete)
• September 29, Web Essentials 05, Guthrie auditorium, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
  • The Elements of Meaningful XHTML (MP3)
• September 25, Webzine 2005, Valhalla Room, Swedish American Hall, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Microformats @ Webzine 2005
• September 21, Web Intelligence Conference, Compiegne, France
  • Page-reRank: using trusted links to re-rank authority (paper) - A discussion of using vote-links to improve PageRank
• June 20: Supernova 2005 (Supernova2005 site), Microformats Workshop, Wharton West, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • "What are Microformats?"
  • "A microformat for tags"

• May 14: Fourteenth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2005), 2005, Microformats Dev-Day Track, Makuhari Messe Room 303, Chiba, JAPAN
  • "What are Microformats?"
  • "Link Microformats"
  • "The Potential of Microformats"
  • "Distributed Social Networks (XFN Implementations)"
    • Demonstrations of WordPress & Metafilter's builtin XFN support, and XFN search engines RubHub & xhtmlfriends.net.
  • "People and Events (hCard & hCalendar)"
  • "hReview in Review"
  • "Bibliographies (hbib)"
  • "a more meaningful web with microformats"
  • "Semantic Web and Microformats" panel, Room 201

• March 15: "Decentralized Social Networks", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 17AB, Austin TX

• March 14: "How to Trick-Out Your Blog", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 16B, Austin TX

• March 13
  • "Emergent Semantics", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 15, Austin TX
  • "Leveraging Tags", as part of the "How to Leverage Solipsism" panel, South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 18A, Austin TX
  • "The Elements of Meaningful XHTML", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2005, Austin Convention Center Room 16B, Austin TX

• January 21: Attention.xml Technology Overview, private presentation, Yahoo! campus, Santa Clara, CA

2004

• September 28: "Semantic XHTML: Can your website be your API? - Using semantic XHTML to show what you mean", SD Forum Web Services SIG, eBay's Silicon Valley Conference Center 2161 North First Street San Jose, CA 95131

• September 12: "Model+View+Controller = XHTML+CSS+JS", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Wallcreeper room, Sebastopol CA

• September 11: "Attention.XML", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Appaloosa room, Sebastopol CA

• September 10: "Simple Semantic Formats", O'Reilly Media Foo Camp 2004, O'Reilly Campus, Camel room, Sebastopol CA

• March 15: "Ridiculously Easy Social Software", South by South West Conference (SXSW) 2004, Austin Convention Center Room 17B, Austin TX

• February 11th: "real world semantics", O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference (ETech) 2004 Westin Horton Plaza, San Diego, CA. This presentation was the first public discussion and introduction of the terms "microformat" and "lowercase semantic web". Reprised as a five-minute lightning talk at ConCon, Rx Gallery, San Francisco CA (16 February 2004).

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