hreview-examples-in-wild

hReview Examples in the wild

This page is an informative section of the hReview specification.

The following sites have published hReviews, and thus are a great place to start for anyone looking for examples "in the wild" to try parsing, indexing, organizing etc.

If you publish hReviews on your own site, feel free to add it to the top of this list. Please be sure to include at least one URL to a page on your site that includes actual hReview markup. Examples added without a URL to a page with hReview markup may be removed.

Want to get started with writing an hReview? Use the hReview creator to write a review and publish it on your blog or site.

New Examples

• iPhone Speaker Reviews is built with Joomla and jReviews and has both editor and user reviews. Currently the editor reviews are published using hReview. Example: Bose SoundDock Series II Review.
• Abyrvalg is a russian city community. Users submit reviews of local businesses. Reviews are published using hReview and hCard markup. Example: reviews of Sunduk pub in Kiev.
• BankFox is a search engine for banks. It has user-submitted reviews of bank accounts, marked up with hReview. For example, here's a page of reviews of Ally Bank.
• WhichTwitterApp provides reviews of twitter clients using hReview, hCard, rel-tag and rel-home.
• MusicRemedy.com, a music site, publishes all song-reviews in hReview format, see example.
• Italian free business directory cylex.it marked up with hReview all user submitted reviews of companies and products. Example: company profile with review.
• SustainLane uses hreview for user reviews of local green businesses and green products (example). Also rel-tag, hcard, vcard, and many more coming.
• MomentVille uses hReview markup for wedding vendor reviews. Example: Reviews of Hawaii Wedding Photographer.
• Inkweaver Review uses a modified Blogger XML template to automatically generate hReview markup for its reviews of young adult books. Example: Review of Toby Alone by Timothee de Fombelle.
• Eduhub uses hReview for it's user reviews of trainings. Example: Trainingreviews .
• APLawrence.com has started using hReview for its reviews
• Common Sense Media now uses hReview for its parent-focused movie reviews. hReview for other media types (books, music, websites) is forthcoming.
• Brownbook.net The global free business directory that anyone can edit uses hReviews for customer submitted reviews on all its business listings. Example Temecula Lipstick, or check out any of the reviews on the home page.
• DutchBulbs.com uses hReview for customer submitted reviews of its bulbs and perennials.
• CleanerToday has implemented hReview linked to an hCard for reviews on product pages. (for example see Moth Trap Reviews.
• [1] uses hReview, rel-nofollow and rel-tag microformats for reviews of movies and home-theater electronics
• BrokerBeagle uses hReview linked to an hCard via the include-pattern to mark up reviews of New York apartment brokers, see example.
• anime.mikomi.org uses hReview to mark up all of its user reviews of anime series, see example.
• Ecovian uses hReview to mark up user reviews of environmentally friendly businesses, see example
• Russian site Hotel Mate uses hReview for user submitted hotel reviews.
• Swedish music site dagensskiva.com publishes all reviews in hReview format.
• Joseph Bergantine periodically reviews things he likes or dislikes on his blog
• MicroReviews - takes Twitter posts and marks them up with hReview. The markup is descibed on the technical page.
• ScubaFreebies.com - reviews websites for SCUBA divers in hReview format. For example review of video site theAquaPlanet
• Hypercasinos.com - offers reviews of online casinos in hReview format. For example a Bodog Casino review
• Allogarage - compare 13 000 motor mechanics in France- all reviews are in hReview format.
• Lopico - social business directory - local business reviews in hReview
• Rolands Umbrovskis - Blog marked up with hReview all blog posts, using very basic requirements (hReview -> rating), for readers rating of any post/page.
• ConcertBuzz- Concert Reviews uses hReview for all user submitted concert reviews. See an individual review page.
• All the West Midland Bird Club's reviews, e.g. Countryman's Bedside Book
• Novedge, the largest online CAD/CAM/DCC store, uses hReview for all product reviews (currently about 2000 reviews). See single review page and multiple reviews page. Each hReview is also visually marked with the hReview button:
• Coneco Club (in Japanese) uses hReview for all product reviews. See example
• lanetro.com, lead city and entertainment guide in the Spanish market with users's reviews about places, restaurants, movies, theaters, shops... Uses hReview (see example), hCards and events (example) on its detail pages.
• 11870.com a social network (real life del.icio.us) which implements hReview for user's reviews about places, services and business
• The Mises Review, an academic journal, uses hReview for their book reviews. See example
• Golf Digest uses hReview on its Course Finder detail pages to publish user comments, ratings and geo. example
• Ramkol (in Hebrew) Advanced social networking based local reviews in Israel
• PopSyndicate is a groups review site for comic books, movies, dvds, music, and book using hReview and hCard.
• MitKBH (in danish) uses hReview to publish reviews of shops, clubs, bars, cafées, take-aways and restaurants in Copenhagen, Denmark. Each reviewed place has also a geo incl.example
• Read&Travel includes meta-information using hReview for travel-book reviews.
• Mangospot uses hReview to publish reviews of bars, cafées and restaurants example
• Sean Johnson has started using hReview for book and music reviews.
• LouderVoice publishes and aggregates hReviews to/from blogs. All Search/Tag Results are also marked up with hReview.
• Bay of Islands uses hReview eg. for reviews of Edgewater Palms
• SpotSpotting, a site where TV commercials are reviewed and marked up with hReview (in Spanish)
• User:AndrewKuchling has added hReview to his book diary and would like to know if the markup is correct; example 1, example 2)
• Revish, a book review community, uses hReview for all reviews on the site.
• User:EdwardOConnor has published several hReviews on his blog (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).
• Ficlets story page uses hReview for user comments.
• Birder's Library, e.g. Audubon VideoGuide to 505 Birds of North America
• Rave About It uses hReviews for all local business reviews. In addition it uses the hCard format for a business's contact details.
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• User:RobCrowther has a number of hReviews on his blog, for example this is one of a sequence of reviews of talks at WebDD07, and a single post with three reviews.
• Volume publishes client reviews/quotes as hReviews.
• Revyu allows people to review, rate, and tag anything. Individual reviews (example) are marked up using hReview.
• GlobalDM publishes client reviews/quotes as hReviews.
• Dishola publishes user reviews and ratings of dishes at restaurants, as opposed to entire "restaurant" reviews.
• MusicKnows publishes user reviews and memories of gigs using hReview.
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• The Ten Word Review simply contains ten word long reviews. All reviews are marked up as hReviews, and user information is marked up as hCards.
• Halogen Guides is an independent network of websites for wealthy consumers. Member-created reviews for destination clubs, private jets and fractional real estate are published with hReview.
• Board Crazy Skateboarding uses hReviews for all skateboarding product reviews.
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• Yahoo Local now supports hReviews for all the user feedback and ratings about places in their search results
• Cork'd is a community site for reviewing and sharing wine. Member-created "Tasting Notes" are published using hReview.
• User:ChrisCasciano has started using hReview in his blog postings including these reviews of Pingerati and Technorati Microformat Search.
• Judy's Book is a local reviews community. Athe hCard format.
• Judy's Book is a local reviews community. All reviews are published in hReview format, and all business listings and members (review authors) in the hCard format.
• Yahoo! Tech has launched with hReview markup on all their reviews! Hat tips: Ashish Shetty and Jeremy Zawodny both via Alex Moskalyuk. Alex says: "when we launched, the press reported on 300,000 tech products in our database. Some popular items, like this Apple iPod, have over 200 reviews."
• 3spots: Social + bookMARKING = Smarking has an hReview of

Smarking.com (a social bookmarking service) which marks up their tagged links with xFolk.

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• Dave Orchard provides hreview marked Vancouver Restaurant reviews
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• hReview of Wikio
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• Joan has published an hReview of Garçon
  • hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
• Zipingo Team Blog, a collaborative blog by the Zipingo Product Development Team at Intuit, used the hReview format to tag the backstory of a review on a San Mateo electrician, written by one of the Zipingo team members ZipingoJim. Jim's post also links to his review on Zipingo, a consumer opinion site.
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• DeBaser.it publishes music reviews (in Italian) supporting hReview.
• Peter Westwood posted an hReview of The Fox Inn
  • hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
• Daniel John provides a scathing hReview of CIBC.
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• Yahoo UK Movie Reviews now supports hReview on all (>2000) reviews, e.g. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Review
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• Adam Hertz wrote hReviews of Soluna and Cafe Gibraltar
  • hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
• Matt McAllister wrote an hReview of the TV show: "The Office"
  • hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
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• Boris Mann wrote an hReview of DoubleTake, a panorama stitch tool for Mac OS X
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• Peter Westwood has written an hReview of Blubeckers Hampton Court and an hReview of The Fox Inn Bucks Green, West Sussex
  • hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
• Dougal has published an hReview of Wolfgang Puck’s Gourmet French Vanilla Latte.
  • hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
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• Dinnerbuzz is a great site for posting tagged reviews of restaurants, and they publish and summarize all their reviews in hReview!
• Bryce Glass (Soldier Ant) posted an hReview of the Uniden ELBT 595 Bluetooth Cordless Phone.
  • hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
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• dda posted an hReview of hReview :)
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• An hReview of Caffè Camardo coffee.
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• Douglas Clifton posted comments regarding adapting his list of ~800 Developer Resources as a format for evaluating hReview.
• Oliver Brown has announced that his SiteReviews.org (which reviews websites) publishes its reviews using hReview, e.g. here is the review on SiteReviews.org for photomatt.net.
• Phillip Pearson is publishing hReviews in the RSS feed of cafe reviews on his kiwi coffee review site, which of course has the reviews in HTML with embedded hReview markup as well.
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• Kjell is publishing his link blog as a list of hReviews.
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• Kevin Marks has published two hReviews and used unicode "star" characters for his ratings!
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• JamesStewart is publishing hReviews in the location pages at his Grand Rapids WiFi site.
• Paul Livingstone uses hreview to voice his opinion on books and music.
  • hReviews have invalid item/fn markup (fn not a child of item) - 12/11/2006
• Andy Clarke uses hReview for his recommended reading list.
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• Jim Nachlin has added hReview publishing to the CMS he uses to publish his blog.
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• Bill Humphries has reviewed the book "A Brother's Price" on his LiveJournal.
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• Vitamin uses hReview on it's reviews section (e.g. a review of Fluxiom).
• OpenGuides has support for the hReview microformat, and you can see it in action on this Cotswolds OpenGuide Review.
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• Paul Goscicki is publishing his movie ratings using hReview.
• Cell Phones etc. is using hReviews for user-contributed cell phone reviews.
• Adam Liptrot publishes movie reviews using hReview and hCard. See article at Movies and Microformats.
• Web Teacher is using hReview for book reviews in both the hReview creator format and a modified format. See a modified example at Web Design: A Complete Introduction.
  • hReviews include the rating inside of the description - 12/11/2006
• The nifty list UK. is using hReviews for user-contributed mobile phone reviews.
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• SergioSantos.info uses hReviews for the reviewed book collection.
• DCS Media converted all of their Firefox extension Reviews into hReview format. See the Fireday page for extension listings.
• Is It Any Good . bizhas added hReview to all of their product reviews. See this example review of Leapster2 Learning System .

Examples with some problems

If you find a problem with any example in any other section, please move it here, and note the precise problem and cite the section of the hReview spec that appears to be violated. If the example that was moved here is yours, and you want to improve it, see the hReview FAQ, or raise any queries on hReview issues or the mailing list, where people will be happy to help you.

• Apple Store customer reviews are marked up in hReview, as in this review of the Airport Extreme Base Station.
  • sub-optimal: Model numbers (?) marked up as URLs, e.g. <SPAN class="url">MB053LL/A</SPAN>
• loadaveragezero.com e.g. [2]
  • invalid: no fn (site owner informed)
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Reviewed Examples

If you have reviewed a New Example (and you are not the author of the example) and believe it to be valid, go ahead and move it here.

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Related pages

• hreview
• hReview-aggregate - microformat for specifying summary information from a collection of reviews about a product or service
• hReview creator (feedback) - create your own hReview.
• hReview authoring - learn how to add hReview mark-up to your existing contact info.
• hReview brainstorming - thoughts for improving hReview.
• hReview cheatsheet - hCard properties.
• hReview examples in the wild - an on-going list of websites which use hReview.
• hReview FAQ - If you have any questions about hReview, check here, and if you don't find answers, add your questions!
• hReview feedback - Feedback is encouraged!
• hReview implementations - websites or tools which either generate or parse hReviews.
• hReview issues - Please add any issues with the specification to the issues page.
• hReview parsing - Normatively details of how to parse hReviews.
• hReview profile - The XMDP profile for hReview.
• hReview tests - a wiki page with actual embedded hReviews to try parsing.
• hReview advocacy - encourage others to use hReview.
• review-examples
  • hreview-examples
• review-formats
• review-brainstorming - where we brainstormed about review formats before coming up with hReview.
• currency - proposal for marking up amounts of money (e.g. prices of reviewed items).
• Aggregate reviews - examples - formats - brainstorming