Yahoo! now indexing microformats
Leave a CommentYes, that’s right Yahoo! is now incorporating microformats into their search engine.
The race to index the semantic web is on.
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Microformats in FF3 & IE8
Snippets of IE8 info revealed at MIX’07
It will also have support for microformats, small tags embedded in the HTML code that can be used in different ways by software applications such as …
Microsoft drops hints about Internet Explorer 8
It is also widely speculated that IE 8 will include support for Microformats, small tags embedded in HTML code that can be interpreted in various ways by …
What would you like to see with Internet Explorer 8?
Mozilla to improve end-user support
Join Firefox User Panel; Firefox User Panel sign up survey results; The road to Firefox 3; Thunderbird 2 Beta 2 released; Microsoft to develop CardSpace extension for Firefox; Animated PNGs support added to Mozilla code.
Support for microformats (Firefox 3 is scheduled to have Microformat support, so it’s best Microsoft does too). User interface customization options (this was lacking in IE7); Small tags embedded into HTML code to be interpreted by …
How should Microformats natively appear in Firefox 3.0?
Operator detects hCard, hCalendar, geo, hReview and rel-tag and allows you to combine those microformats with desktop applications and web services such as Google Maps and Yahoo! Calendar. There has been a lot of discussion about how …
Microformats & Blogging
Brian Donovan has some hcard.js wizardry while Dan Webb released the gloriously named sumo. The guy who wrote Operator, Mike Kaply, also has a bunch of Firefox and Javascript specific info over at his blog. …
[Elsewhere] POSH versus Microformats
Jeremy Keith attempts to clear up a commonly made misinterpretation: “Having re-usable chunks of markup is still incredibly useful and powerful… but they’re not microformats. <snip> So what you should you call a piece of semantically …
Aren’t Microformats Supposed To Be Accessible?
I am a big fan of microformats, I look forward to being able to use a program to retrieve contact details, event details or other bits of information solely from a well marked up web page and that is why I wanted to contribute with a …
Semantic Web Markup for Blogs ?!?
Blogs make heavy use of folksonomies through their tagging and category systems and some have information embedded in microformats and RDFa. Finally, a number of blogs, eg, FieldMarking, are experimenting with the notion of “data …
According to Microformats.org: hReview is a simple, open, distributed format, suitable for embedding reviews (of products, services, businesses, events, etc.) in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. hReview is one of several …
Microformats – OpenID
I decided to try out OpenID. OpenID is a decentralized authentication system which was invented by LiveJournal and is now being developed as an open standard with the help of the Apache Foundation. Anyone can create an OpenID, …
Why OpenID Doesn’t Make Business Sense
OpenID is a round-robin tool for adding cross-site, cross-architecture user authentication to your web projects. For example, if I wanted to login to Digg.com and my favorite blogger’s website. OpenID lets me log in once and have a …
OpenID; multiple sites, single login
OpenID starts with the concept that anyone can identify themselves on the Internet the same way websites do-with a URI (also called a URL or web address). Since URIs are at the very core of Web architecture, they provide a solid …
I knew PHP guys were playing with OpenID and Yadis, but it seems like Zend is planning to build it into their framework and the language! Gutmans also said he expects PHP and Zend products to accommodate identity technologies such as …
Social Software, Privacy, and Libraries
While OpenID does not directly address all privacy concerns, it could be used to give users a measure of control over their own profile information, which is a step in the right direction for developers of social software, …
OpenID Delegation To WordPress.com
Now that WordPress.com blogs include an OpenID server for free and most WordPress users have an account there as they need it for Akismet to work, it turns out they can use it as the invisible back end to authenticate via their own …
Lets not kid ourselves, it’s all about size
When the web was first blossoming in 1994, I remember sitting in my parents’ basement playing with coax network cables linked together providing a shared Internet using a pair of bonded 28.8 modems…
Microformats – XOXO
XOXO is a simple, open outline format written in standard XHTML and suitable for embedding in (X)HTML, Atom, RSS, and arbitrary XML. XOXO is one of several …
XOXO – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
XOXO (eXtensible Open XHTML Outlines) is an XML format for outlines built from XHTML modularization. Developed by several authors as an attempt to reuse …
The purpose of the XOXO document type is to serve as the basis for XHTML friendly outlines for processing by XML engines and for easy interactive rendering …
XOXO; OPML; RSS 1.0; RSS 2.0; ATOM; JSON (raw); Arbitrary XML. From URL:. Output Format:. XOXO, OPML, JSON. Classes (optional): Simplify? …
Microformats – News
Operator leverages microformats that are already available on many web pages to provide new ways to interact with web services. Operator lets you combine pieces of information on Web sites with applications in ways that are useful. …
These are just a few more thoughts on microformats now I’ve had time to reflect and read a bit more….
Microformats – a sip of sea water
Microformats – a sip of sea-water. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. …
The approach taken by Microformats is the complete opposite of RDF which in many ways succeeds where RDF fails. Microformats is not intended to address the Semantic Web Vision but instead offers small domain specific solutions to …
Microformats and accessibility
I’ve long been worried about the accessibility of microformats, so experimented and found that the way that dates are marked up is inaccessible to users of the big two screenreaders, and began writing an article to that effect. …
Microformats are a great idea. They allow the embedding of parsable, semantic data (like contact information and event details) into regular pages. With the right plug-in, that information can be saved directly to your calendar program …
If you capture more structured information, consider using Microformats in your rendered Web pages.This evolving standard specifies critical bits of …
This seems to be a ‘subgroup’ of the ‘web standards movement’ and is the basis from which microformats are built. POSH. Initiatives like this are good because they encourage the use of higher standards in the creation of websites. …
More POSH news
http://microformatique.com/?p=144
http://buzz.originalsignal.com/article/530804/posh-microformats.html
http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2007/04/plain-old-semantic-html.html
Microformats – News
Three SEO Articles Everyone should Read
Further, you will have a foundation of understanding for the search optimization potential offered by Microformats and new HTML elements proposed by the W3C HTML and WHAT Working Groups. (All of the UAs or, User Agents follow emergent …
The TechnoSocialGap
The best way to develop MicroFormats towards the goal of bridgign the TechnoSocialGap?, is to try and bridge it right now with existing tools, and then think about how existing or yet-to-exist MicroFormats could enhance and facilitate …
Microformats – News
Making & Breaking Web Services (with Ruby)
Microformats – the website is your API. Just use semantic markup, that tell the pareses what information is important. They’re very easy to add accessibility to the stuff that you already have there. mofo (sudo gem install mofo) is a …
Unobtrusive JavaScript, Microformats, and the Google AJAX Feed API
I have been having a lot of fun working with unobtrusive JavaScript, and using microformats to define rich behaviour that both degrades nicely, and keeps the code clean. Since we just released the Google AJAX Feed API, I can discuss one …
For over 3+ years I have been following the work of Tantek Çelik through his advocacy of microformats. So I found his latest post about POSH (not Victoria Beckham) very interesting. I have slightly edited the post to get across the key …
Microformats – News
The Snap Shots Ecosystem includes Snap Shot Markup Language (SSML), a microformats inspired tagging system that allows publishers to enable Shots on any web …
BBC News Reports on Future Mozilla Firefox Plans
… data on the web so that applications can use data intelligently”, which appears to be a reference to the possibility of support for microformats. …
I recently finished reading Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 (A review and more information to come soon). Without saying too much, this book was incredible from many standpoints. I have been researching and implementing …
Web 2.0 Expo: Bridging the Gap, OpenAuth and Widgets
There was a lot of discussion of the widget space, microformats (which 99% of the audience hadn’t heard of which surprised me), a little on OpenID and I got to talk about OpenAuth! I’ve had to stay quiet about it for months now, …
Microformats – News
First review for Microformats: Empowering your markup for web 2.0
Microformats: Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0 by John Allsopp (Friends of Ed, 2007) is a terrific book that tells you everything you need to know to begin using microformats well right now.
Firefox Prototype Reveals Web 2.0 Features
Those projects include Joey, which lets users pass data from Firefox to a cell phone; and Operator, a Firefox add-on that uses Microformats to collect and …
NTC2007: Closing Thoughts on the Conference
During the last day of the conference I attended a session that covered microformats for Web coding behavior. This seems like an interesting use of code and definitely worth keeping an eye on, if you want to play with it now the ..
Recently on the Microformats Mailing List
The microformats-discuss mailing list reached an impossible signal/noise ratio for me awhile back. My inbox was just too flooded with discussions I did not find interesting and I archived 90% of it without even opening it. …
Perceptions of progress in web standards
What percentage of live sites do you think currently use font tags? What percentage of live sites do you think currently use inline javascript? What percentage of live sites do you think currently use microformats? …
