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This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].
This page documents the press that [[microformats]] has received. See also microformats [[articles]], [[screencasts]], [[presentations]], [[podcasts]], and [[books]]. Note that some of this press may be in response to [[press-faq|the press FAQ]].


==Press enquiries==
Some sources of conventional press:
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].


==Ongoing==
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats&scoring=n Google News search for "microformat(s)"] ([http://news.google.es/news?hl=es&ned=es&scoring=n&q=microformatos+OR+microformat news.google.es search for "microformat(os)"])
* [http://news.google.com/news?q=microformat+OR+microformats Google News search for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]
* [http://www.google.com/alerts?hl=en&q=microformat+OR+microformats&ie=UTF8&t=1 Google alert (e-mail) for "microformat(s)"]


==Press enquiries==
If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our [[IRC]] channel or [[mail|microformats-discuss mailing list]].
== March 2009 ==
* 2009-03-11 [http://cmscritic.com/microformats-a-set-of-simple-open-data-formats-built-upon-existing-and-widely-adopted-standards "Microformats"]by CMS Critic
== October 2007 ==
=== URLs of mentions ===
* 2007-10-04 http://www.elmundo.es/navegante/2007/10/04/tecnologia/1191529660.html
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-10-04</span><span class="summary">Techcrunch-fr </span> : le point sur les microformats (<span class="url">http://fr.techcrunch.com/2007/10/04/fr-le-point-sur-les-microformats/</span>)</span></span>


=== Blog News ===
== September 2007 ==
Minor news sites that seem like they are actually blogs:
=== URLs of mentions ===
* [http://www.google.com/custom?domains=programmableweb.com&q=microformats&sitesearch=programmableweb.com Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com]
* 2007-09-21 [http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3701096 "Microformats: Toward a Semantic Web"] by Internetnews.com.


== 2007 ==
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-09-12</span> <span class="summary">"Microformats : vendre en ligne sans boutique" - Salon ecommerce Paris - Guide du Participant</span>: <span class="url">http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/1405921949/</span></span></span>
=== July 2007 ===
==== URLs of mentions ====
* http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/
* http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html
* http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html
==== noted and quoted ====
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*[http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718 2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats]
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-09-11</span><span class="summary">InternetNews.com</span>: Microformats Hop on Semantic Web 'Griddle' (<span class="url">http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3699101</span>)</span></span>
* [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305 "What's next for the Internet"] in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" (2007-07-03) by Michael V. Copeland. <blockquote><p>"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki></p><p>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer.</p><p>"I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </p></blockquote>


=== June 2007 ===
== August 2007 ==
==== URLs of mentions ====
=== URLs of mentions ===
To be processed into the below noted and quoted format:
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-08-06</span> <span class="summary">PC Magazine</span>: <span class="url">http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2167604,00.asp</span></span></span>
* http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-08-03</span> <span class="summary">SitePoint</span>: <span class="url">http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/08/03/have-microformats-finally-arrived</span></span></span>
* http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-08-01</span> <span class="summary">WIRED</span>: <span class="url">http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/08/google-maps-tak.html</span></span></span>
==== noted and quoted ====
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-08-01</span> <span class="summary">CMSWire</span>: <span class="url">http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-20/back-to-the-future-of-the-web-what-mattered-most-001526.php</span></span></span>
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* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz"] in "BBC News | Technology" (2007-06-29) <blockquote><p>Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.</p><p>It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain <span class="notspam">specia<span class="srsly"></span>lists</span> will grab different domain patches.</p><p>Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. </p><p>...</p><p>The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!</p><p>But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.</p><p>This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."</p><p>This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</p></blockquote>
== July 2007 ==
* '''"Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web"''' in "01 Informatique" - (2007-06-29) issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/]<span style="float:right">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]</span>
=== URLs of mentions ===
<blockquote><p>Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</p></blockquote>
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-07-20</span> <span class="summary">CMSWire</span>: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/openid-and-microformats-become-socially-acceptable-001494.php</span></span>
* [http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html "Microformats: People First, Machines Second"] in "Electronic Design" (2007-06-21) by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. <blockquote><p>It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</p></blockquote>
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-07-10</span> <span class="summary">Wired</span>: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/07/tim-berners-lee.html</span></span>
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-07-02</span> <span class="summary">Seatle Times</span>: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003770628_techsocial02.html</span></span>
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-07-02</span> <span class="summary">Web Worker Daily</span>: http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/07/02/powncing-on-the-twitter-bird-or-not/</span></span>


=== noted and quoted ===
Remove the above two level 3 headings when all URLs of mentions are noted and quoted here.


=== ... ===
<ul>
<li class="vevent">
<span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-07-18</span> <span class="summary">Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for ''Open Social Web'' references below microformats announcements</span> (<span class="url">http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html</span>).</span>
</li>
<li class="vevent">
<span class="dtstart">2007-07-17</span> <span class="summary">Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats</span> (<span class="url">http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718</span>) <blockquote class="description"><p>...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.</p></blockquote>
</li>
<li class="vevent">
<span class="dtstart">2007-07-03</span> <span class="summary">"What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland.</span> (<span class="url">http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305</span>) <blockquote class="description"><p>"We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." <nowiki>[- Nova Spivack]</nowiki></p><p>Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and [[microformats]] that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer.</p><p>"I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction." </p></blockquote>
</li>
</ul>


=== January 2007===
== June 2007 ==


* [http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html ''Microformats get real''] in ''Government Computer News'' (UK) (2007-01-15) by Joab Jackson
=== URLs of mentions ===
* [http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker] by Mitch Wagner, Information Week.  Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox (2007-01-03)
* [http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker] - Read/ Write web, (2007-01-02)
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/ What on earth... are Microformats ?] in ''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK) (2007-01-01)


== 2006 ==
To be processed into the below noted and quoted format:
 
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-06-26</span> <span class="summary">Web Worker Daily</span>: <span class="url">http://webworkerdaily.com/2007/06/26/location-location-location-get-the-best-out-of-3-presence-apps/</span></span></span>
=== December ===
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-06-25</span> <span class="summary">Ars Technica</span>: <span class="url">http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2007/06/25/rumor-internet-explorer-8-beta-coming-by-year-end</span></span></span>
* [http://24ways.org/2006/styling-hcards-with-css 24 Ways: Styling hCards with CSS] The 24 Ways article for December 14 is John Allsopp's article on styling hCard using CSS (2006-12-14).
 
=== November ===
* [http://accessify.com/news/2006/11/html-mastery/ Accessify.com announce ''HTML Mastery''] a new book by Paul Haine, with a chapter on microformats (2006-11-27).
* [http://www.netmag.co.uk .Net magazine (UK)], cover date December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew (tutorial not available on-line)
* [http://www.ascii.co.jp/books/magazines/macpeople.shtml MacPeople], a paper magazine about Macintosh in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 12/2006 issue, written by [http://nobi.com/nobilog/ Nobuyuki Hayashi].
* Cover story in iX 11/2006 p. 62-65: [http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/2006/11/062/ Mehrwert-Markup] (German: additional value markup)
* [http://www.architecturejournal.net/2006/issue8/F5_Patterns/default.aspx Patterns for High-Integrity Data Consumption and Composition], in "The Architecture Journal", an online journal of web architecture published by Microsoft, mentions microformats as a way to maintain high data fidelity in loosely coupled, highly federated systems. "The considerable variety of data these days includes an extensive array of XML-based formats, as well as increasingly widespread, lighter weight data formats such as the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and microformats."
 
=== October ===
* [http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/008472.html INFOWORLD TECH WATCH: "Bloggers speak out on IE 7"] - published: October 20, 2006.  Mention/discussion of microformats by Tantek Çelik and Kristopher Tate.
* Practical Web Design, October 2006 issue, "Microformats" article by Rachel Andrews
* W3C [http://www.w3.org/2006/10/grddl-pressrelease Press Release] GRDDL Spec


=== September ===
=== noted and quoted ===
* ...


=== August ===
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* [http://digital-web.com/articles/the_big_picture_on_microformats/ The Big Picture on microformats] - who's doing what with microformats right now - by John Allsopp - Published August 28th, 2006.
* [http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/design/how-to-use-microformats Add microformats magic to your site] by John Allsopp - Published August 25th, 2006.


=== July ===
<ul>
* [http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=1526 Knowledge at Wharton: Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats] - Published: July 20, 2006
<li class="vevent">
=== June ===
<span class="dtstart">2007-06-29</span> <span class="summary">"The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology"</span> (<span class="url">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm</span>
* [http://devzone.zend.com/node/view/id/584 Microformats, PHP and hKit], from devzone.zend.com, a PHP developer resource, 28th June.
<blockquote class="description"><p>Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.</p><p>It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain <span class="notspam">specia<span class="srsly"></span>lists</span> will grab different domain patches.</p><p>Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in [[microformats]] on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure. </p><p>...</p><p>The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!</p><p>But in making it easy to add [[microformats]], which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.</p><p>This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."</p><p>This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.</p></blockquote>
* [http://www.mercurytide.com/knowledge/white-papers/microformats Building a more semantic web with microformats], from Mercurytide, 20th June.
</li>
=== May ===
* [http://www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,1961106,00.asp DevSource: An Developer's Introduction to Microformats by Phil Haack, May 11.]
** See also [http://haacked.com/archive/2006/05/11/IntroductionToMicroformatsArticle.aspx Phil Haack's blog post about the article].


=== April ===
<li class="vevent">
=== March ===
<span class="dtstart">2007-06-29</span> <span class="summary">'''"<span lang="fr">Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web</span>"''' in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage</span>. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682883268/in/photostream/] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852/in/photostream/]<span style="float:right">[http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/682882852 http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg]</span>
* (need to backfill these - there were a bunch which we forgot to include)
<blockquote class="description" lang="fr"><p>Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. ''"Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre"''. C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)</p></blockquote>
<blockquote class="description" lang="en"><p>Translation : These microformats enhance web pages, and lead them to structured data. As a search engine, it makes more sense. ''"Integrating Microformats is a really simple and pragmatic way to start with semantic web"'', said Francois Goube, CEO of JobiJoba.com : a European JobSearch engine.</p></blockquote>
</li>


=== February ===
<li class="vevent">
* [http://book.mycom.co.jp/wd/ Web Designing], a popular paper magazine for web industry in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 03/2006 issue.
<span class="dtstart">2007-06-21</span> <span class="summary">"Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742.</span> (<span class="url">http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html</span>
* [http://www.release1-0.com/freshproduce/newideas_socialtime.cfm Release 1.0 / Ideas / New Ideas that Matter: Time as a social object], February 16. Video interviews composite, including a bit on microformats.
<blockquote class="description"><p>It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.</p></blockquote>
* [http://2006.sxsw.com/interactive/web_awards/finalists/ SXSW 2006 Web Awards Finalists], February 3rd. [http://microformats.org microformats.org] is a finalist in the "Technical Achievement" category for "the sites that are re-inventing and re-defining the technical parameters of our online experience".
</li>
=== January ===
</ul>
* [http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html Google Web Authoring Statistics, January 20]
*# The home page of the study "[http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html Web Authoring Statistics]" itself both mentions “microformats.org” and links to http://microformats.org .
*# The "[http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/pageheaders.html Page Headers]” page notes that the [http://gmpg.org/xfn/ XFN] microformat is the most popular HTML metadata profile: “…people do use the profile attribute, though. The three most-often used values are http://gmpg.org/xfn/1, http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/, and http://gmpg.org/xfn/11. This makes XFN the most popular HTML metadata profile!”
*# The “[http://code.google.com/webstats/2005-12/element-a.html a element]” page found that three of the most popular ‘rel’ attribute values were microformats: #1 [[rel-nofollow]], #2 [[rel-license]], #5 [[rel-tag]].
* [http://www.philoneist.com/50226711/interview_with_technorati_marketing_director_derek_gordon.php  Philoneist: Interview With Technorati Marketing Director Derek Gordon by Jonathan G. Cohen, January 11]
* [http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20060101232742 #2 on the list of Best Web 2.0 Blogs, January 2]


== 2005 ==
== January 2007==
=== December ===
* [http://www.publish.com/article2/0,1759,1904359,00.asp Publish: Year in Review: CSS, Standards, Microformats and Flash, By Stephen Bryant, December 21]
* [http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news.html?d=91118 Newswire: Structured Blogging to support microformats, December 13th]
* [http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8731 Linux Journal: Syndication and the Live Web Economy, By Doc Searls, December 9]
=== November ===
* [http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=349&page=4 ACM Queue: A Conversation with Ray Ozzie, ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 9 - November 2005]
* [http://www.digital-web.com/articles/microformats_primer/ Digital Web Magazine: Microformats Primer by Garrett Dimon, November 14, 2005]
=== October ===
* [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/10/19/microformats-and-web-2.0.html XML.com: Microformats and Web 2.0 by Micah Dubinko, October 19, 2005]
=== September ===
* [http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=118325 Channel 9: Interview at PDC] - Robert Scoble interviews Tantek Çelik briefly on web standards, IE, and microformats.


=== July ===
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-01-15</span> <span class="summary">''Government Computer News'' (UK); Microformats get real by Joab Jackson</span>: <span class="url">http://www.gcn.com/blogs/tech/42930.html</span></span></span>
* [http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2005-7/0722f.html#item12 ACM News Service - Volume 7, Issue 819: Friday, July 22, 2005]
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-01-03</span> <span class="summary">Information Week; Firefox 3: From HTML Renderer To Information Broker by Mitch Wagner</span>: <span class="url">http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/01/firefox_3_from.html</span> Discusses the implications of native microformat support in Firefox.</span></span>
* [http://lists.ssc.com/pipermail/suitwatch/2005-July/000090.html Linux Journal: SuitWatch -- July 21 -- by Doc Searls, Senior Editor of Linux Journal: Making More Sense of the Web]
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-01-02</span> <span class="summary">Read/ Write Web; Mozilla Does Microformats: Firefox 3 as Information Broker</span>: <span class="url">http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mozilla_does_microformats_firefox3.php</span></span></span>
* [http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/index.cfm?fa=viewArticle&id=1247&specialId=38 Knowledge at Wharton: Supernova 2005: It's a Whole New, Connected World: What's the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats]
* <span class="vevent"><span class="description"><span class="dtstart">2007-01-01 </span><span class="summary">''Linux Format Magazine'' (UK); What on earth... are Microformats?</span>: <span class="url">http://www.flickr.com/photos/christopheducamp/500478421/</span></span></span>
** Simplified Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=4>
** Traditional Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&l=4&languageid=5>
** Original english version: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=1>
=== June ===
* [http://news.com.com/2030-12-5745034.html#microformats CNET News.com: Supernova 2005 blogcast] - David Weinberger interviews Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare about microformats and [http://microformats.org/ microformats.org].
** [http://blog.blogcast2005.silkclips.com/clipView?http://silkblogs.com/FindResource/EC139870-22E5-F208-70FA-BC437BD64420/celik-khave-full.mov  Watch the full interview with Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik (22:21 minutes)]
* Golem: [http://www.golem.de/0506/38831.html microformats.org - Formate für Menschen und Maschinen] (German: microformats.org - Formats for humans and machines)


=== March ===
== Blog Mentions ==
* [http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/03/23/deviant.html XML.com: What Are Microformats?]
While not conventionally thought of as press or news, mentions by blogs can often be significant and may superficially resemble press due to their reverse chronological, most recent post first organization.
* [http://s.technorati.com/microformat+OR+microformst Technorati search for "microformat(s)"]


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== See Also ==
== See Also ==
* [[press-faq]]
* [[articles]]
* [[books]]
* [[presentations]]
* [[podcasts]]
* [[quotes]]
* [[screencasts]]
* [[external-resources]] for external resources related to microformats.

Latest revision as of 16:43, 16 February 2022

Press

This page documents the press that microformats has received. See also microformats articles, screencasts, presentations, podcasts, and books. Note that some of this press may be in response to the press FAQ.

Some sources of conventional press:

Press enquiries

If you are a journalist, wanting to write or broadcast about microformats, please ask on our IRC channel or microformats-discuss mailing list.

March 2009

October 2007

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September 2007

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August 2007

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July 2007

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  • 2007-07-18 Forbes article on Plaxo Pushes for Open Social Web references below microformats announcements (http://www.forbes.com/businesswire/feeds/businesswire/2007/07/18/businesswire20070718005301r1.html).
  • 2007-07-17 Plaxo Pushes For "Open Social Web": Endorses and implements key open standards, OpenID and microformats (http://www.plaxo.com/about/releases/release-20070718)

    ...the company has implemented the microformats hCard and hCal as part of the all-new Plaxo 3.0 making it even easier for members to share information and support more mashups in the future. Public profiles, a new feature of the service, now use the hCard format for contact info, giving users the ability use their profile information on any of the growing list of services that consume hCard data.

  • 2007-07-03 "What's next for the Internet" in "CNNMoney.com" syndication of an article from "Business 2.0 Magazine" by Michael V. Copeland. (http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/07/01/100117068/index.htm?postversion=2007070305)

    "We've had the problem of overpromising in this industry; a lot of us who were working on semantic Web technologies early on saw the potential and got a little excited. It has taken much longer to realize than we thought. One thing Web 2.0 has taught everybody is that simpler is better. Find something useful and iterate on that." [- Nova Spivack]

    Tom Coates, whose day job at Yahoo involves working on just these issues, thinks the Web 2.0 crowd is already taking care of the problem. He points to tagging and microformats that add some of the same metadata to webpages that semantic technologies offer.

    "I call it the dirty semantic Web," Coates says from his London office. "It may not be the pristine Berners-Lee view of the world, but it is headed in the right direction."

June 2007

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  • 2007-06-29 "The Tech Lab: Bradley Horowitz" in "BBC News, Technology" (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6252716.stm

    Where we find people codifying big blocks of entities - whether in a movie database or books or restaurants, or business entities - I am comfortable taking a pragmatic approach so long as the companies contributing their respective intellectual property are committed to open standards and strategies.

    It will happen through small pieces loosely joined, and it is emerging already. Different domain specialists will grab different domain patches.

    Once we begin to have this information we can then put it in microformats on the web, which are machine-readable. So then in an automated fashion crawlers can take advantage of that structure.

    ...

    The web itself is sloppy, loose and unstructured - and these, by the way, are virtues!

    But in making it easy to add microformats, which are just machine-readable, coded bits of structure, we let machines talk to machines and ambiguity over which restaurant I am blogging about, or which film, or which person, will end.

    This represents a huge step toward the vision of the semantic web, and will not only create entirely new applications, but will also solve problems that users today have come to accept as part of "life on the web."

    This structure should be optional, not imposed. The onus is on us, the builders of the tools, to make it brain dead simple to add this structure.

  • 2007-06-29 "Les microformats donnent du sens aux pages web" in "01 Informatique" - issue 1911 by Frederic Bordage. [1] with a french interview of Tantek Çelik [2]682882852_15a6587a30_m.jpg

    Web Sémantique. Ces formats transforment les pages web en bases de données structurées. L'indexation devient ainsi plus riche et plus pertinente. "Une approche du web sémantique pragmatique et simple à mettre en oeuvre". C'est ainsi que François Goube, PDG du moteur de recherche JobiJoba.com qualifie les microformats. (...)

    Translation : These microformats enhance web pages, and lead them to structured data. As a search engine, it makes more sense. "Integrating Microformats is a really simple and pragmatic way to start with semantic web", said Francois Goube, CEO of JobiJoba.com : a European JobSearch engine.

  • 2007-06-21 "Microformats: People First, Machines Second" in "Electronic Design" by William Wong. ED Online ID #15742. (http://www.elecdesign.com/Articles/ArticleID/15742/15742.html

    It's amazing what you can find bouncing around the Internet. I stumbled across microformats while looking for something else. Microformats are a way of embedding semantic information on a Web page. They're designed to augment human-readable versions so software can easily and accurately extract the same information. Also, they're based on a small set of open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.

January 2007

Blog Mentions

While not conventionally thought of as press or news, mentions by blogs can often be significant and may superficially resemble press due to their reverse chronological, most recent post first organization.

Related pages

See Also