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Material for a "microformats.org turns 5" blog post - additional suggestions welcome!
Material for a "microformats.org turns 5" blog post - it's live:
 
http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets


== 2 billion pages with hCards ==
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Thanks to Jeremy Keith's help!
Thanks to Jeremy Keith's help!
* StatusNet platform uses hCards for all users and groups (Example instance: http://identi.ca/ ). Also uses representative hCards where appropriate. I'm not sure about exact numbers --[[User:Csarven|Sarven Capadisli]] 22:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)


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Material for a "microformats.org turns 5" blog post - it's live:

http://microformats.org/2010/07/08/microformats-org-at-5-hcards-rich-snippets

2 billion pages with hCards

According to Yahoo! Search Monkey, there are now over 2 billion pages with hCards on the web:

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkey%3Acom.yahoo.page.uf.hcard

This is perhaps due to a few fairly large recent deployments:

  • BrightKite.com - all venues and user profiles have hCard (millions)
  • Gravatar - all profiles now have hCards (millions) - used on WordPress.com etc.

There's also been a notable very useful deployment from 37 Signals:

Thanks to Jeremy Keith's help!

  • StatusNet platform uses hCards for all users and groups (Example instance: http://identi.ca/ ). Also uses representative hCards where appropriate. I'm not sure about exact numbers --Sarven Capadisli 22:51, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

94% of rich snippet markup

Some additional recent news:

see also