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

• Board Crazy Skateboarding uses hReviews for all skateboarding product reviews.
• 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. All reviews are published in hReview format, and all business listings and members (review authors) in the 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.
• Dave Orchard provides hreview marked Vancouver Restaurant reviews
• hReview of Wikio
• Joan has published an hReview of Garçon
• 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.
• Minced Media, a media blog by author/writer Kim M. Bayne, used the hReview format to tag her rant about customer service. Future reviews of business and media will contain hReview.
• UK Film Review a new blog using hReview format to review Films and DVD releases in the UK
• DeBaser.it publishes music reviews (in Italian) supporting hReview.
• Peter Westwood posted an hReview of The Fox Inn
• Daniel John provides a scathing hReview of CIBC.
• Yahoo UK Movie Reviews now supports hReview on all (>2000) reviews, e.g. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Review
• Adam Hertz wrote hReviews of Soluna and Cafe Gibraltar
• Matt McAllister wrote an hReview of the TV show: "The Office"
• Boris Mann wrote an hReview of DoubleTake, a panorama stitch tool for Mac OS X
• Peter Westwood has written an hReview of Blubeckers Hampton Court and an hReview of The Fox Inn Bucks Green, West Sussex
• Dougal has published an hReview of Wolfgang Puck’s Gourmet French Vanilla Latte.
• Dinnerbuzz is a great site for posting tagged reviews of restaurants, and they publish and summarize all their reviews in hReview!
• Bryce Glass posted an hReview of the Uniden ELBT 595 Bluetooth Cordless Phone.
• dda posted an hReview of hReview :)
• An hReview of Caffè Camardo coffee.
• 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.
• Kjell is publishing his link blog as a list of hReviews.
• Kevin Marks has published two hReviews and used unicode "star" characters for his ratings!
• JamesStewart is publishing hReviews in the location pages at his Grand Rapids WiFi site.
• Soldier Ant has reviewed a cordless phone.
• Paul Livingstone uses hreview to voice his opinion on books, movies and music.
• Andy Clarke uses hReview for his recommended reading list.
• Tim White has begun implementing hReviews at at work.
• Jim Nachlin has added hReview publishing to the CMS he uses to publish his blog.
• Bill Humphries has reviewed the book "A Brother's Price" on his LiveJournal.
• Vitamin uses hReview on it's reviews section (e.g. a review of Fluxiom).
• OpenGuides has support for the hReview microformat in svn, and for now you can see it in action on the Cotswolds OpenGuide.
• 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.
• The nifty list UK. is using hReviews for user-contributed mobile phone reviews.

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