press

Press

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

Ongoing

• Search for 'microformats' at programmableweb.com

2006

November

• Accessify.com announce HTML Mastery a new book by Paul Haine, with a chapter on microformats (2006-11-27).
• .Net magazine (UK), cover date December 2006, has tutorial on microformats, by Rachel Andrew (tutorial not available on-line)
• MacPeople, a paper magazine about Macintosh in Japan, contained an article about microformats on its 12/2006 issue, written by Nobuyuki Hayashi.
• Cover story in iX 11/2006 p. 62-65: Mehrwert-Markup (German: additional value markup)
• Patterns for High-Integrity Data Consumption and Composition, in "The Architecture Journal", an online journal of web architecture published by Microsoft, mentions microformats as a way to maintain high data fidelity in loosely coupled, highly federated systems. "The considerable variety of data these days includes an extensive array of XML-based formats, as well as increasingly widespread, lighter weight data formats such as the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) and microformats."

October

• INFOWORLD TECH WATCH: "Bloggers speak out on IE 7" - published: October 20, 2006. Mention/discussion of microformats by Tantek Çelik and Kristopher Tate.
• Practical Web Design, October 2006 issue, "Microformats" article by Rachel Andrews
• W3C Press Release GRDDL Spec

September

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August

• The Big Picture on microformats - who's doing what with microformats right now - by John Allsopp - Published August 28th, 2006.
• Add microformats magic to your site by John Allsopp - Published August 25th, 2006.

July

• Knowledge at Wharton: Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare: The Progress and the Promise of Microformats - Published: July 20, 2006

June

• 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.

May

• DevSource: An Developer's Introduction to Microformats by Phil Haack, May 11.
  • See also Phil Haack's blog post about the article.

March

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

February

• 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".

January

• 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

2005

December

• Publish: Year in Review: CSS, Standards, Microformats and Flash, By Stephen Bryant, December 21
• Newswire: Structured Blogging to support microformats, December 13th
• Linux Journal: Syndication and the Live Web Economy, By Doc Searls, December 9

November

• ACM Queue: A Conversation with Ray Ozzie, ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 9 - November 2005
• Digital Web Magazine: Microformats Primer by Garrett Dimon, November 14, 2005

October

• XML.com: Microformats and Web 2.0 by Micah Dubinko, October 19, 2005

September

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

July

• ACM News Service - Volume 7, Issue 819: Friday, July 22, 2005
• Linux Journal: SuitWatch -- July 21 -- by Doc Searls, Senior Editor of Linux Journal: Making More Sense of the Web
• Knowledge at Wharton: Supernova 2005: It's a Whole New, Connected World: What's the Next Big Thing on the Web? It May Be a Small, Simple Thing -- Microformats
  • Simplified Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=4>
  • Traditional Chinese: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&l=4&languageid=5>
  • Original english version: <http://knowledge2.wharton.com.cn//index.cfm?fa=article&articleid=1203&specialid=58&languageid=1>

June

• CNET News.com: Supernova 2005 blogcast - David Weinberger interviews Tantek Çelik and Rohit Khare about microformats and microformats.org.
  • Watch the full interview with Rohit Khare & Tantek Çelik (22:21 minutes)
• Golem: microformats.org - Formate für Menschen und Maschinen (German: microformats.org - Formats for humans and machines)

March

• XML.com: What Are Microformats?