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Syndicate Microformats

The two day Syndicate Conference finished up yesterday. Lots of good news about microformats and more and better support for microformats was announced both during the conference and the weeks leading up to it. I’m still collecting/collating all the recent announcements. For now, check out the following: Microformats: Emerging syndication types presentation at yesterday’s microcontent […]

Digital Web Magazine Microformats Primer

Garrett Dimon has written an excellent introduction to / primer for microformats. He provides simple straightforward examples of hCard, nofollow, and XOXO. He discusses several reasons for using microformats including: Standards, CSS Convenience, Plug-and-Play JavaScript, and Machine-Readability. I like this explanation of some of the subtler essences and nuances of the microformats principle of humans […]

WebZine FollowUp

Update: I forgot to point something out about my slides- when viewing them, if you hit the little Ø character (in the controls in the bottom-right corner) to view an outline version of the presentation, which includes some notes, which should hopefully help the slides make more sense to those who weren’t present. What an […]

Microformats at the PDC

Joshua Allen blogged the Panel on the Future of RSS at Microsoft‘s PDC in Los Angeles, with great folks like Robert Scoble (moderator), Amar Gandhi (MSFT RSS), Jeff Barr (Amazon), Sanaz Ahari (start.com), Greg Reinacker (Newsgator), Mike Ehrenberg (MSFT MBS/CRM), and Doug Purdy. Two really great quotes that merit repeating here: Audience: KISS. If you […]

EconoMeta on microformats

EconoMeta attended Bar Camp and wrote some thoughts about microformats: Beyond their technical usefulness and practicality, microformats are interesting to me because so many of them seem to be centered around de-coupling personal data from application that might use that data. Absolutely. This kind of modularity is core to microformats. My focus here is on […]