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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:
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!
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
EVDB
Firefox
- greasemonkey scripts for Firefox
Flickr People
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
hReview creator
- hReview creator (originally published by Ryan King) is a javascript form for creating hReviews.
- by Ryan King
Ice Rocket
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
Laughing Squid Calendar
- The Laughing Squid Calendar events listings support hCalendar.
LiveJournal
- LiveJournal - LiveJournal supports tagging posts with rel-tag.
LJFind
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
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
Spanning Salesforce
- Spanning Salesforce supports hCalendar.
SPRACI
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.
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
David Janes
Laughing Squid
Nature Publishing Group
SixApart
Technorati
- Technorati Contacts Feed Service
- Technorati Events Feed Service
- Technorati Microformats Search
- Technorati Search
- Technorati Tags
Yahoo
Additional Sites
Additional static/read-only sites which enhanced their content with microformats.
Avon
Flock About Page
- Flock About page supports hCard microformat.
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