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Material for a "microformats.org turns 5" blog post - | 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 | |||
According to Yahoo! Search Monkey, there are now over 2 billion hCards on the web: | == 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 | http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=searchmonkey%3Acom.yahoo.page.uf.hcard | ||
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* Gravatar - all profiles now have hCards (millions) - used on WordPress.com etc. | * Gravatar - all profiles now have hCards (millions) - used on WordPress.com etc. | ||
== 94% | There's also been a notable very useful deployment from 37 Signals: | ||
* 37 Signals have added hCards to Basecamp: | |||
** http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp/556-any-chance-of-adding-hcards | |||
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) | |||
== 94% of rich snippet markup == | |||
Some additional recent news: | Some additional recent news: | ||
* microformats has 94% marketshare compared to alternatives (e.g. RDFa) according to Google (announced at the Semantic Technology conference) | * microformats has 94% marketshare compared to alternatives (e.g. RDFa) for rich snippet markup according to Google (announced at the Semantic Technology conference) | ||
** http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_web_push_rich_snippets_usage_grow.php | ** http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_semantic_web_push_rich_snippets_usage_grow.php | ||
** http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/richsnippets_june10b.jpg | ** http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/richsnippets_june10b.jpg | ||
== | == see also == | ||
* [[history]] | |||
Latest revision as of 22:47, 14 July 2010
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:
- 37 Signals have added hCards to Basecamp:
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:
- microformats has 94% marketshare compared to alternatives (e.g. RDFa) for rich snippet markup according to Google (announced at the Semantic Technology conference)
