Press

This page documents the press that microformats has received. See also microformats screencasts, presentations, podcasts, and books.

2006

Microformats, PHP and hKit, from devzone.zend.com, a PHP developer resource, 28th June.
Building a more semantic web with microformats, from Mercurytide, 20th June.

(need to backfill these - there were a bunch and I think we simply forgot to add them in)

Web Designing, a popular paper magazine for web industry in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 03/2006 issue.
Release 1.0 / Ideas / New Ideas that Matter: Time as a social object, February 16. Video interviews composite, including a bit on microformats.
SXSW 2006 Web Awards Finalists, February 3rd. 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".

Google Web Authoring Statistics, January 20
1. The home page of the study "Web Authoring Statistics" itself both mentions “microformats.org” and links to http://microformats.org .
2. The "Page Headers” page notes that the 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!”
3. The “a element” page found that three of the most popular ‘rel’ attribute values were microformats: #1 rel-nofollow, #2 rel-license, #5 rel-tag.
Philoneist: Interview With Technorati Marketing Director Derek Gordon by Jonathan G. Cohen, January 11
#2 on the list of Best Web 2.0 Blogs, January 2

Channel 9: Interview at PDC - Robert Scoble interviews Tantek Çelik briefly on web standards, IE, and microformats.