events/2007-03-12-sxsw-growth-evolution-of

The Growth and Evolution of Microformats at SXSW 2007

One of several microformats events.

Summary

The Growth and Evolution of Microformats is a confirmed panel presentation session to be held at the 2007 SXSW Interactive Festival, on Monday, March 12th from 2:00-3:00pm in Austin, Texas.

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Panelists

In order of appearance:

• Tantek Çelik (moderator)
• Michael Kaply
• Glenn Jones
• Frances Berriman
• Jeremy Keith (surprise guest panelist)

Short Session Description

Was required to be 25 words or less:

Microformats.org has ushered in the rapid adoption of key formats for publishing and sharing tags, licenses, contacts, relationships, events and reviews. What happens next?

Longer Session Description

In its first year, microformats.org ushered in the rapid adoption of key formats for publishing and sharing tags, licenses, contacts, relationships, events and reviews on the Web. See what new microformats are being developed for resumes, classified listings, music, and media, as well as how tens of millions of established microformats on web sites of individuals, companies, and organizations are driving innovations in desktop applications and advancing personal data portability.

Attending

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• Tantek Çelik (moderator)
• Michael Kaply
• Glenn Jones
• Frances Berriman
• Jeremy Keith (surprise guest panelist)
• William Lawrence
• Ryan King
• Chris Griego
• Mike Linksvayer
• Dan Connolly (attempted to volunteer for Jeremy Keith's phone demo, but was disqualified due to being a known member of the microformats community and with W3C :)
• Adam Darowski
• Cody Marx Bailey - Dumbass who volunteered for Jeremy's phone demo with a development site then go "deer in the headlights" and couldn't remember sibility.com... yeah!

Session Notes

Tantek did a brief and incomplete history of microformats through t-shirts, for the following:

• http://sxsw.com/ (2003)
• http://gmpg.org/xfn/
• http://blo.gs/
• http://wordpress.org/
• http://eventful.com/
• http://simplebits.com/
• http://microformats.org/
• http://flickr.com/
• http://technorati.com/
• http://odeo.com/
• http://supernova2006.com/
• http://stanford.edu

Mike Kaply

Glenn Jones

Frances Berriman

Q&A (see below)

Session Comments and Q&A

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Photos

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Blog Posts

Put most recent first.

• SXSW Notes - Notes from SXSW Interactive in Austin, TX - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats - good capture of the Q&A
  • Lazyweb - please transcribe / cleanup Q&A documented in this blogpost to the Q&A section above.
• JUST THIS ONE - Microformats
• WIRED Blog - Microformats Go Large
• SXSW Monday Recap - Techquila, Microformats, Dogster, Bats and the Expo Hall
• 2:00pm - The Growth and Evolution of Microformats Panel Notes (SXSWi 2007)
• Adam Darowski "SXSWi: The Growth and Evolution of Microformats" I didn't take the most detailed notes, but this session certainly inspired a few questions. Great job, guys.
• SXSWi 07 Notes: The Growth and Evolution of Microformats - fairly thorough notes
  • Lazyweb - please transcribe / cleanup Q&A documented in this blogpost to the Q&A section above.