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===From uf-discuss===
===From uf-discuss===


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* [[jcard|hCard in JSON]], a data format for contacts, is being worked on, based on hCard and vCard. It should be useful as an output format from hCard parsers, easily readable by Javascript.


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===Developments on uf-new===
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===On the web===
===On the web===
 
* Related to the Yahoo deployment of hListing:
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** http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_kelkoo_microformats.php
* Toluu apparently supports importing hCards - this needs some investigation, and incorporation into [[social network portability]].
** http://www.toluu.com/calebelston
** http://twitter.com/calebelston
* [[events/2008-02-01-sgfoocamp|SGFooCamp]] recordings re: microformats topics - see [http://adactio.com/journal/1431 Jeremy's post]
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kjJ-IaB71A Jeremy talked about] the [[social-network-anti-patterns#Enter_your_other_site_login_and_password|password anti-pattern]].
** [http://youtube.com/watch?v=cwIqQyWlhCg Leslie talks about] the challenges of [[user-interface]] design, especially with respect to [[social-network-portability]], and discusses what a user should or should not need to know about [[OpenID]], and Satisfaction's [[hCard]] implementation.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFGGLJBhcRY Tantek talks about] the origins of [[XFN]], [[hCard]], and [[hCalendar]] as well as the need to focus on benefitting the user with improvements in [[user-interface]].
* [http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/4058/Microformats-Inbound-Marketing-for-Computers.aspx Microformats: Inbound Marketing for Computers!] - a nice intro blog post with good examples.
* [http://www.semanticreport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=119&Itemid=1&ed=6 SemanticReport] interviews Steve Ganz of [http://linkedin.com LinkedIn] about the upper and lower-case semantic web and their use of microformats (XFN, hCard, hResume, hCalendar, and hReview.)
* [http://microrevie.ws/ MicroReviews] is taking Twitter posts and marking them up with [[hReview]]. Each post is also marked up with [[hAtom]] to give feeds for every page.


===Face-to-Face===
===Face-to-Face===
 
Including [[events]].
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* [[events/2008-04-01-san-diego-web-standards-group|20080401 San Diego Web Standards Group launch]] with focus including microformats
** [http://www.flickr.com/photos/techslut/sets/72157604370117724/ photos]
* [[events/2008-london-microformats-vevent|20080627 Microformats vEvent during London Web Week]]
* [http://www.openwebvancouver.ca Open Web Vancouver 2008] - Apr/14+15 @ Canada Place, Microformats talks include: [http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/microformats-diso Microformats and Distributed Social Networks] by Chris Messina, [http://www.openwebvancouver.ca/microformats-ryan-king-0 Microformats with Ryan King] and more

Latest revision as of 19:40, 8 April 2008

This Week in Microformats - Week Beginning March 31th 2008

This Week in Microformats’ is a weekly summary of notable microformats activity from mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. It gets posted to the Microformats.org Blog on Sundays. Please add contributions to the headings below. (See the original This Week in Microformats posts for guidance on formatting; This Week #1, This Week #2.)

On the Wiki

From uf-discuss

  • hCard in JSON, a data format for contacts, is being worked on, based on hCard and vCard. It should be useful as an output format from hCard parsers, easily readable by Javascript.

Developments on uf-new

On the web

Face-to-Face

Including events.