Identi.ca: microblogging open source in stile Twitter: e SMOB? E il Semantic Web? Niente paura…
Sta nascendo una sinergia notevole di intenti, tra un microblogging open source e decentralizzato, e il prototipo semantico che sto usando, SMOB, che avevo iniziato a mostrare qualche post fa. Identi.ca e’ il nuovo Twitter in mano agli utenti, basato sul codice di questo progetto open, Laconi.ca. Identi.ca is a micro-blogging service based on the Free Software Laconica tool. If you register for an account, you can post small (140 chars or less) text notices about yourself, where you are, wha
Ve RIATalks Istanbul..
Ve RIATalks Istanbul.. 07.23.08 | Yorum Yapılmamış 28-29 Haziran'da İstanbul Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Beşiktaş Kampüsünde düzenlediğimiz RIATalks Zengin İnternet Uygulamaları ve Web 2.0 Hazırlık Konferansının ardından çok daha kapsamlı olarak düzenlenecek olan RIATalks Zengin İnternet Uygulamaları ve Web 2.0 Konferansı 8-9 Ağustos tarihlerinde yine Bahçeşehir Üniveristesi Beşiktaş Kampüsünde yapılacak. Etkinlik RIA ve Web 2.0 kavramları çerçevesinde teknoloji, servis ve uygulama tanıtımı odakl
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Microformats diagram
Microformats에 대해서 공부중인데 about microformats에 있는 다음 그림이 맘에 들어서 올려봅니다. 구성 요소에 대해서 간단하면서도 예쁘게 잘 표현해서 맘에 드네요. 참고로 microformat이 아니라 microformats 이네요.
Der Safari ist schuld!
Gestern habe ich durch Zufall den Schuldigen für die abbr-desing-pattern - Misere gefunden… Der Safari ist Schuld! Ursprünglich war das object-Tag zum Anzeigen des Datums vorgesehen: Aber… Unfortunately, to put it mildly, Safari’s
Semantic Django
David Larlet hat auf SemanticDjango.org eine beachtliche Liste an Python-Klassen (hauptsächlich für das Django-Framework) zusammen getragen, die das Verarbeiten und Portieren von Daten ermöglichen (z.B. OpenID, OAuth, RDF oder Microformats). .. data is more important than code and if you store, manipulate, give access to your data in a standard way you’ll be able to interact with other website as part of the Giant Global Graph. Hat nicht jemand Lust ein SemanticSymfony zu basteln?
VIREL - microformats-aware search-engine
few days ago, I’ve received an automated e-mail by Virel.org - a microformat-aware search-engine/web-crawler based in Germany. obviously they indexed the hCard embedded on this blog, cool! currently they seem to restrict their service to personal data (hCard) and events (hCalendar), which brings me to the point: is there actually a service out there making use of hAudio, the microformat for annotating audio-data? I think I remember that Yahoo had something up their sleeves, but haven’t seen any
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Twitter's Fail Whale Becomes a Huge Success
Read ReadWriteWeb's background story on how an unknown artist's icon became popular as Twitter's "over capacity" image and even created a fan base of its own. Great example of how you can turn your weaknesses into strengths. I'm not sure how much "community" we can bear, but we can definitely never get enough of "authenticity"...
hcalendar
hcalendar July 20th, 2008 hcalendar-intro - Microformats hCalendar is a method for adding additional mark-up to a page which contains details of one or more events, so that the event(s) can be identified by software, and indexed, searched or downloaded separately from the page itself. This or a variant (such as a small sitemap style xml file) would work well for businesses to post their opening hours on their website, which could then be easily indexed by search engines. Popularity: 3% [?]
Que son los microformatos?
Los microformatos son una forma sencilla de agregar significado a la información digital, de manera que sea reconocible por las maquinas y útil para los humanos. Una de las características de los microformatos es que hacen que la información se pueda aprovechar y reutilizar. Para ello se insertan unas etiquetas predefinidas en el código, que las máquinas entienden y reconocen, aprovechando los valores que se muestran y pudiendo ser usados posteriormente. Inventados para solventar problema
Links of the Week July 19th, 2008
I know I missed publishing these on Friday like normal, but it’s been a very difficult last few days. Long story short my father was performing a funeral Thursday morning when he collapsed and was taken to the hospital. I just returned from the Greenwood hospital spending the morning with him. He’s in good spirits, but it’s not good. He has some swelling of the brain and a very large sized mass in his brain. He’s having a biopsy of the brain performed Monday morning when we will know more.
Microformats - Aumentando o poder da Web
Eu já venho estudando Microformats há algum tempo, tenho muito interesse em Web Standards como muito de vocês sabem, então resolvi fazer alguns artigos sobre esse tema, e nesse primeiro artigo venho falar sobre algumas razões para se usar Microformats". Começo citando cinco boas razões extraídas do artigo "Why Use Microformats?" - Melhor "Markup" Mais significado no seu código permite que informação semântica seja adicionada, reforçando a qualidade do seu site. - Poupa seu tempo Microformat
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Episode 47 - Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Adam and I visited the posh South Park Engine Yard office to talk with Ezra Zygmuntowicz. We covered hosting, managing open source, and even a bit about writing a book. Click here for show notes. Download Podcast
Web Development Practices for SEO
The purpose of this article is to focus on the internal structure of the site for SEO and ways to maximize document relevancy for user searches. A general rule of thumb is to follow good usability and accessibility practices which essentially result in better ranking. The following are not given in order of importance. A [...]
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Microformats mit RDFa ergänzen
Toby Inkster beschreibt auf seinem Blog sehr anschaulich, wie man eine hCard mit RDFa-Informationen erweitern kann. While hCard offers many useful properties that can be used to describe contacts, some are considered beyond the scope of the hCard specification. For example, there is no hCard property to mark up somebody’s height, or shoe size. This is where RDFa comes in. RDFa is not a specialist format for describing people or organisations, but a more general format for describing anything.
The art of stealing
»Good customers pay, bad customers steal.« — Michael Koren, Graphic and Web Designer (* 1969) The Factory-Berlin is an art association with headquarters in Berlin-Oberschöneweide. In 2007, I developed a new design for its web site with XHTML and CSS. The result was a clear, unobtrusive design based on a typographic grid. I decided to make as few effects as possible. The artists should be use the site as a platform for the presentation of their works. In April last year, the new web site was
podcast#25 - K14 The Future of Corporate Websites
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors: This podcast and blog post is in German. This episode is about my blog post The Future of Corporate Websites - Sebastian Keil from the popular German podcast Kanal14 talked with my about it on his show. Ich war diese Woche zu Gast bei Kanal14 und habe mit Sebastian Keil über meinen Blog Artikel The Future of Corporate Websites gesprochen. Wir haben versucht das Thema in 30 Minuten runterzubrechen und auf den Punkt zu bringen und ich hoffe
microformats: Jesse Rodgers provides steps + an example of how higher education websites can use microformats http://tinyurl.com/5vqf23 (found via @axna)
microformats: Jesse Rodgers provides steps + an example of how higher education websites can use microformats http://tinyurl.com/5vqf23 (found via @axna)
Who You Calling A Jesse?. A look at Microformats for Higher Education
Who You Calling A Jesse?. A look at Microformats for Higher Education http://whoyoucallingajesse.com/past/2008/7/16/a_look_at_microformats_for/
microformats: Greg Wolejko (@hlx) wrote a nice intro post on Why Use Microformats: http://tinyurl.com/6qtqqh
microformats: Greg Wolejko (@hlx) wrote a nice intro post on Why Use Microformats: http://tinyurl.com/6qtqqh
Yahoo Search Monkey in Paris
The Yahoo! Developer Network recently held an event in Paris to introduce SearchMonkey to local developers. I was on hand to help discuss microformats. I’ve got a brief write up of the event on the YDN blog: SearchMonkey in Paris. SearchMonkey SearchMonkey allows developers to create enhanced search result presentations for a web site. These appear when a user installs the easy to create application and then does a search query that provides the module as part of the normal search result. Y
S curve your way out of recession
Scott Brinker from Chief Marketing Technologist has some good advice on S curves and how to handle them. S curves are a phenomenon of technology adoption. They begin where a particular technology — in this case, ads on search engine results pages (SERPs) — arrive on the scene with chaotic, slow growth while early adopters figure it out. Then a dominant model emerges — e.g., Google AdWords text ads — where the winning approach and the benefits to the market become obvious, powering mainstrea
On Portable Social Networks
Ben Ward from Yahoo! Brickhouse writes about Portable Social Networks over at Digital Web Magazine. It talks about Identity, Personality and Profile, using Microformats like XFN and hCard. Post from Jean-Jacques Halans MarkupAsAnApi blog. On Portable Social Networks ShareThis
A look at Microformats for Higher Education
July 16, 2008 at 01:10 PM Almost a year ago now I started exploring the idea of a research paper on Microformats with regards to Higher Education. After doing some research I settled on assessing ten Higher Education web sites, their mark-up and their content, identify some common patterns and explore the viability of Microformats for the typical Higher Education home page.You can grab a version of my paper in acrobat.com but if you want a PDF version please leave a comment. In my paper you w
podcast#23 - The openID based Persona Creator
[GERMAN] Short notice for english speaking visitors: This podcast and blog post is in German. In this episode I talk about my idea to create an openID based persona creator. It’s again about the issue, that publishers try to collect data from us, but that I see the bigger potential in simply asking us and we provide them with different personas. I guess something like that could be realized with open ID and in this context I also talk about all kind of Targeting, AttentionTrust.org, Microfo
VRM and the Personal Address Manager
This VRM Workshop session covered the concept of the Personal Address Manager. The scene setting points covered: First Assumption - Privacy Differences from long running relationships - Mutual policy negotiation - pain-free - Default policy bucket - No identifier Easy to produce end of relationship artifacts Win-Win for customers and vendors - Removing barriers to exit is attractive. A use case was examined: Single Stop Online Shopping With Address With Personal Delivery Service (eg. relat
TinyMCE Microformats Plugins
hCard- und hCalendar-Plugin für TinyMCE… und da TinyMCE auch der WordPress-WYSIWYG-Editor ist, gibts das Paket zusätzlich noch als WordPress-Plugin.
What is Microformats
| View | Upload your own Update@7.21：视频失效，看幻灯片也不错。 这里有段视频，收藏之。 Microformats 即微格式，html技术，继续研究。
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Microformatos
O André Luís iniciou uma página no Wiki sobre o trabalho que se está a iniciar no SAPO sobre Microformatos e deixou lá a apresentação interna que se fez recentemente. Mais aqui.
Microformats-Interview with Jinny Potter, University of Georgia
Greetings WOW members and Web professionals everywhere. Bill Cullifer here with the World Organization of Webmasters (WOW) and the WOW Technology Minute. Today’s podcast is a continuation of the media coverage of the Voices That Matter Web Design Conference that took place in Nashville last month. For today’s podcast, I have the pleasure to be interviewing Jinny Potter, Technical Lead of Web Development at the University of Georgia. I asked Jinny to summarize Jeremy Keith’s session on Microfo
QR-Code statt rel-me
Um einen guten sozialen Graphen abbilden zu können ist es wichtig, dass die Verlinkung über z.B. rel-me (oder FoaF oder OpenID-Delegation) bidirektional statt findet. Beispiel: (notizBlog.org -> twitter.com) (twitter.com -> notizblog.org) Um auch Community-Profile ohne Backlink-Möglichkeiten (z.B. facebook) verifizieren zu können, kam Brad Fitzpatrick (der Mann hinter Googles Soci
How to use the TinyMCE hCalendar and hCard Plugins with MODx
Recently I created two plugins for Tiny MCE, the WYSIWYG editor that MODx uses that allow you to easily add contact information and event information to your posts and webpages, using the hCard and hCalendar microformats. Unfortunately, installing these plugins on MODx is not quite as streight forward as it might be, so here are some step by step instructions: Download the TinyMCE hCard and hCalendar plugins from UndergroundWebDesigns.com. Once the files are downloaded, unzip them. Inside the
検索のゴミを避けたい
たとえばPHPで検索する。おいらが調べるものといえばプログラミング言語のほうである。しかし検索結果には「PHP研究所」に関するページが出てくる。 仕方なしに検索語句を「−"PHP研究所"」としよう。するとPHPのみの場合で検索結果10位のサイトがでてこなくなる。 答えは簡単。件のサイトにはこの一文があるから。 (なお、「PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor」はオープンソースのソフトウエア の名称であり、出版社である「PHP研究所」とは一切関係ありません。) 別の例では「RSSリーダ」に関する記事の最後に「あと最近R*1anti87search45*ub*9anti68search51*yやってんだが難しいねこれ」などと呟くと、R*9anti68search51*ub*9anti68search51*yでRSSをほげほげしたい人がやってきちまったりする。 他にも「Googleで検索結果一件を出した奴が優勝」のようなスレがまとめブログに載ると、もうその検索結果は決して「一件」ではなくなるし、「署*9anti68search51*名ま*9antiほがs
Social Media Club Gets Some Firepower
The Social Media Club (SMC), a new media and advocacy organization focused on social media, today announced that 42 well-regarded industry leaders have volunteered to form an interim Board of Directors. The new interim board has been charted to address several key organizational and strategic deliverables, including development of membership goals, acceleration of local chapter development, increase in adoption of industry standards and implementation of a new legal structure to enhance futu
Why use Microformats.
From a pure business standpoint using Microformats is not so beneficial. Or is it? Check out what are the reasons for your company to get into Microformats and why will you benefit from the day one.read more | digg story
Save Microformats
Save Microformats Admin Tools, Features No Comments » Save Microformats Description: A plugin to save posted Microformats using technorati feeds. You only have to put or where you want the button to be displayed. - Version: 1.0 - License: GPL - Author: Wolfgang Bartelme and Chris Messina - Plugin Page - » Download « written by admin \\ tags: microformats, save Previous Entries i3Theme 1.7 is designed by N.Design Studio, c
Why use Microformats.
Some time ago I wrote (and talked on a conference) about Microformats. I introduced the concept and made a quick summary on how does a Microformat look like. Today I’d like to look at the whole concept of Microformats from a little more business oriented perspective. I want to answer two important questions here: What’s in it for me? Why should my company use Microformats? There are five good reasons to get into the whole Microformats shebang and here those are: Better markup - more meaning
Links for 2008-07-09
Call for web to stay open for all [BBC] NBC uses Olympics as research lab [Variety] Open Tech 2008 [Jeremy Keith] Commons motion to free postcodes [Puffbox] What to do? [Cameron Hunt] ‘Linking here’ lists with Google feed API [Puffbox] Opera Web Standards Curriculum [Opera]
microformats: weekly meetup dinner tonight 18:30 http://rurl.org/uum @ SF Westfield Food Ct. Cool off w air-conditioning and gelato: http://rurl.org/uuo !
microformats: weekly meetup dinner tonight 18:30 http://rurl.org/uum @ SF Westfield Food Ct. Cool off w air-conditioning and gelato: http://rurl.org/uuo !
Open Tech 2008
Open Tech was fun. It was like a more structured version of BarCamp: the schedule was planned in advance and there was a nominal entrance fee of £5 but apart from that, it was pretty much OpenCamp. Most of the talks were twenty minutes long, grouped into hour-long thematically linked trilogies. Things kicked off with a three way attack by Kim Plowright, Simon Wardley and Matt Webb. I particularly enjoyed Matt’s stroll down the memory lane of the birth of cybernetics. Alas, the fact that I stay
Semantic Seesmic?!?
Seesmic scheint in nächster Zeit ne ganze Menge vor zu haben. Auf dem Screenshot ist übrigens Mr. Topf zu sehen… Der erste Schritt war wohl die Umstellung von reinem Flash zu mehr HTML, wahrscheinlich um Seesmic semantischer gestalten zu können (die ersten implementierten Formate sind XFN und hCards). Aber das ist noch lange nicht alles, geplante sind unter anderem folgende Formate und offene Standards: Open data formats: - RDF as the foundation, and exporters to microformats, HTML, RDFa
Links for 2008-07-08
Portable Social Networks, the building blocks of a social web [Digital Web Magazine] YouTube/Viacom privacy followup (and what Google should do) [Dan Brickley] Release early, release often is not as easy as it seems [Chris Heilmann] The Clangers’ guide to Microformats [Drew McLellan]
Und jetzt noch ohne Frames und Tabellen
Chef, darf ich deine Seite mal eben nutzen, um auf meine hellseherischen Fähigkeiten hinzuweisen? Cheheeef?! Na gut, keine Antwort ist auch ‘ne Antwort:
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The Major Revolution in Microformats
The Major Revolution in Microformats July 7th, 2008 by Mia Northrop Wouldn’t it be nice if you could take the reviews and ratings of a product from one site and automatically plug it into your blog? Or if you could add contact details from a site straight into your Contacts? Or if adding the details of an event from a website to your Calendar didn’t rely on your having Outlook? Or how about creating one resume that all the job sites can read? This is the promise of microformats and its hReview
Microformats, the BBC and friends
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern. My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the BBC’s take on them. It’s a useful read if you want to catch-up and see where we are. I think the best thing to come out of this is probably that we’re talking abou
Recent Links: June 29 to July 06
Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia. Warp “Warp is a [free] preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard. “Warp offers the ability to display a live preview of a space when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, allowing you to see what you have on another space before actually switching to it. Clicking the preview will then warp you to that space. (Enable this feature by checking the option “Clic
Magische Microformats-Maschine im Einsatz
Microformats sind bekanntlich etwas, das ich sehr spannend und wichtig finde. Warum nicht die Inhalte eines Textes, der sich im Internet befindet, so auszeichnen, dass nicht nur Menschen den Text lesen können, sondern auch Maschinen etwas mit diesem oder jenem Wort anfangen können? Ein kleines bisschen kann jeder Blogger (oder Text-ins-Internet-Bringer) mit wenigen Handgriffen seinen Texten Microformats “beibringen”. Beispiel soll hier das geo-Microformat sein. Mit diesem Microformat kann man g
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_patterns.php TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3612 Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies Written by Alex Iskold / March 25, 2008 3:20 PM / 32 Comments In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds. In a recent in
Is the New York Times (Becoming) a Software Company?
Nothing is more old news than the good old newspaper from yesterday. Silicon Alley Insider reports on the New York Times' attempt to counter the continued print media decline by establishing new revenue streams through several online initiatives. Marc Frons, chief technology officer of the Times' digital operations, provides cues as to where the company is placing its bets: "Widgets, iPhone apps, APIs, and more." In essence, this means the Times is turning into a software company, applying t
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Die Sendung mit den drei (Vornamens-)Ds: David Maciejewski unterhauml;lt sich dieses Mal mit Dirk Ginader und Dirk Jesse. Eine ausgesprochen kurzweilige Sendung mit reichlich News, Empfehlungen, einer Meckerecke und Uuml;berlauml;nge.
Links for 2008-07-06
Why the BBC removed Microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk… [BBC Internet Blog] DateTime design pattern [Microformats wiki] Gestures are the new multi-touch? [Ben Hanbury] Pies are great [Neil McIntosh]
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir
Recently I started writing a weekly blog post for my local CFI affiliate, Freethought Fort Wayne. This week however, instead of my usual blog post, I wanted to direct everyone to Tim Farley’s new blog, Skeptical Software Tools (a site that is definitely going on my blogroll). Tim only has one post of note up as of now, but it’s a doozy chock full of information on harnessing the power of Web 2.0 to promote skepticism. It’s based on a presentation given at The Amazing Meeting 6 a couple of weeke
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir
How Web 2.0 works I’m going to forgo my normal weekly blog post here and instead point you to Tim Farley’s new blog Skeptical Software Tools. Tim only has one post of note up as of now, but it’s a doozy chock full of information on harnessing the power of Web 2.0 to promote skepticism. It’s based on a presentation given at The Amazing Meeting 6 a couple of weekends back. In particular, Tim sees the primary goal of the skeptic as battling misinformation, and the internet is an important front
Recently in microformats (July edition)
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Din Neville has been working hard this week, updating the Russian translation of the wiki. Thank you, Din. datetime-design-pattern contains documentation and discussion of alternative patterns to represent dates and times. The parsers page has fallen a little out of date. If you’d like to help update it with links to current available parsers, please hel
Recently in microformats (July edition)
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web.
On the wiki
Din Neville has been working hard this week, updating the Russian translation of the wiki. Thank you, Din.
datetime-design-pattern contains documentation and discussion of alternative patterns to represent dates and times.
The parsers page has [...]
SearchMonkey Developer Event
Review: SearchMonkey Developer Event at Wallacespace, 2 Dryden Street, Covent Garden, London, England. WC2E 9NA. 18:30 to 20:00 I'd heard quite a lot about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!'s new search platform but not got around to checking it out, so I was hoping this event would be a useful introduction. The evening involved a couple of presentations from Yahoo! developers coupled with free drinks and food - a promising combination! The first presenter (sorry, didn't make a note of the name - a Yahoo!
Open Tech schedule
I’ll be heading up to the University of London tomorrow for Open Tech 2008. The last Open Tech was in 2005 which was, by all accounts, a legendary affair—it led directly to the creation of the ORG. I’ll be speaking about microformats, probably reworking some of the things I was talking about at XTech. It looks like there’ll be quite a lot of discussion around social networks, portability and privacy so I’m going to concentrate on XFN and hCard. Speaking of which, be sure to read Ben’s excellen
BBC removing microformat support
It was sad to read on John Resig's blog that the BBC found the microformat convention of using to denote items like dates negatively impacted usability. The BBC's concerns were: the effect on blind users using screen readers with abbreviation expansion turned on where abbreviations designed for machines would be read out the effect on partially sighted users using screen readers where tool tips of abbreviations designed for machines would be read out the ef
Apple-Adressbuch Kontakte als hCards speichern
Lustro ist ein kleines Tool um die Kontakte aus dem Apple-Adressbuch in die verschiedensten Formate zu exportieren… Keine Ahnung für was ich das “Kontakte to hCards” - Feature benötigen könnte, aber Lustro verarbeitet Microformats also wird drüber gebloggt
Distributed Social Networking on Digital Web
This week’s issue of the excellent Digital Web Magazine leads with an article I’ve written about Distributed Social Networking, published under the title Portable Social Networking: Building Blocks of a Social Web It’s an overview of distributed social networking in a microformats context, explaining how XFN and hCard gives us most of what we need to start exposing users to the benefits of having information made available between different social sites. As well as explaining how to go about
microformats: Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web, an article by Ben Ward in Digital Web Magazine http://icanhaz.com/xfnhcard
microformats: Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web, an article by Ben Ward in Digital Web Magazine http://icanhaz.com/xfnhcard
Microformats
Today I was talking at Cognifide about Microformats. And here is a little summary of what I have said. Microformats are attempts of formating web data using existing markup of XHTML. This is done as wikipedia says: “to allow information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.” These little bits of HTML markup are meant to be both “presentable and parsable” meaning that they add
Online-Marketing-Tools: Microformats und Yahoo SearchMonkey
Online-Marketing-Tools: Microformats und Yahoo SearchMonkey 07.03.2008 by admin in Tipps No Comments → Unternehmen, die Suchmaschinen-Optimierung nutzen, sollten zwei neue Themen auf Ihre Agenda setzen: Microformats und Yahoo! SearchMonkey. Microformats stellen wahrscheinlich einen wichtigen Baustein auf dem Weg zum semantischen Web (Web 3.0) dar, während das System Yahoo! Search Monkey dazu dient, die eigenen Suchmaschinen-Ergebnisse von Yahoo! grafisch und inhaltlich aufzuwerten. Auf
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web. Ben Ward’s tour de force of practical tools and techniques for building out the distributed social web, using XFN and hCard to represent the data. If you only read one article on portable social networks, make it this one.
Why I Don’t Care That Googlebot Can Crawl Flash
While I do not claim to be an SEO guru, and am not a developer, I have been in this space long enough, and have enough web chops to know that the announcement made yesterday by Google and Adobe is not a step forward in the progression of the web. Here is why: 1. The “Because You Can” Syndrome Destroys Lives a. Why do brand marketers and advertisers create experiences online? Well, sometimes it is to do commerce. Other times it is to create engaging platforms to immerse consumers, b
Microformats and what’s wrong with them
I just came from a morning-long presentation on microformats, by André Luís and I must confess I was not very impressed at all. Not by André, who’s a great guy who obviously knows his stuff and managed to make a clear presentation and still fend off some hard questions. I was less-than-impressed by the microformats idea itself. For a while, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was really wrong with microformats and then it hit me. Microformats reminds me of the mid-90s when people started
Microsoft rachète Powerset : Moteur de recherche Sémantique.
La nouvelle vient d’être confirmée, Microsoft à racheté Powerset, le moteur de recherche sémantique. La rumeur donne un montant de rachat de 100 millions de dollars par Microsoft, alors que Powerset était valorisé il y a quelques temps à 40 millions de dollars. (more…)
microformats: weekly meetup SF dinner reminder: 18:30 tonight, Crepes on Cole. http://pownce.com/t/notes/2627529/ in a diff city? use wiki, organize one!
microformats: weekly meetup SF dinner reminder: 18:30 tonight, Crepes on Cole. http://pownce.com/t/notes/2627529/ in a diff city? use wiki, organize one!
Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part II: People vs. Machines
Discovery is a machine-oriented process. While people can access the data being discovered, the focus is on making it easy for machines to access and extract. But when the data is intended for both people and machines developers have to choose between providing it once or offering it in two separate containers. Discovery in Plain Sight The fact that screen scraping drives many useful services means that there is great value for machines to be able to access human-readable data. Microformats o
ANWB.nl revamped
Introduction The past 9 months I have had the pleasure and the privilege to work on one of holland’s biggest websites, ANWB.nl. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I also had the pleasure to work with a great team and I thank you guys, you know how you are. As this was the biggest jobs I have ever done, I will take the time to share my experience with you. History ( or why ) ANWB had been working with a custom built cms and it began to show the wear and tear of being used and added to in
RDFa for Semantic MediaWiki [GSoC 2008]
Hello, world! My name is David McCabe, and this summer I am adding RDFa support to Semantic MediaWiki, as part of the Google Summer of Code 2008. I am an undergraduate in Mathematics at Portland State University. For the Google Summer of Code 2006, I wrote Liquid Threads, a MediaWiki extension that replaces talk pages with a threaded discussion system. Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is the software used for the CC wiki and many other wikis. SMW allows authors to mark up wiki pages so that their co
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IE8’s WebSlices - another practical Microformat
One of the new features already announced for IE8 is WebSlices; essentially, the ability to subscribe to any part of a web page, even if it doesn’t have an RSS feed. It sounds somewhat similar to Firefox’s Microsummaries feature*, although it’s a) easier to implement, b) more flexible, and c) not buried in the browser where no-one could ever find it. Microsummaries work by creating an XML file which is polled on a regular basis by the user agent to check for updates; WebSlices work on the sa
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Deutsche hCard-Suchmaschine
Virel über sich selbst: VIREL ist eine webseiten-freundliche Suchmaschine fuer microformats. VIREL sucht nach veroeffentlichten Informationen die als microformats in Webseiten eingebunden sind. Ein schönes Feature ist der vCard-Export direkt über das Suchergebnis. Leider müssen alle Seiten per Hand eingereicht werden, da es noch keinen z.B. Ping-Service gibt. Mal schau’n wann telefonbuch.de in Zugzwang gerät
Microformats and accessibility: the soap opera that never ends
[IMG [duck with its head underwater]] ducks butt © Dave Gough / CC As far as I can tell, the only thing that leading accessibility experts agree on is that nobody listens to leading accessibility experts, especially not the microformats cabal, which has never cared about accessibility, has never bothered to test it, and has never acknowledged those who have tested it. In fact, the BBC recently removed one microformat from their site because one piece of it may be confusing to some screen rea
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hForms - Semantische Formulare
Warum sollte nur die Ausgabe ((X)HTML) semantisch anreichern und die Eingabe vernachlässigen? Beim spielen mit dem hCard-Mappers und der Firefox-Microformats-API kam mir die Idee, auch Formulare semantisch auszuzeichnen… In dem Artikel Use the new microformats API in your Firefox 3.0 Extensions beschreibt Rob Crowther wie man mit Hilfe der Firefox-Microformats-API eine hCard speichert um sie zum Ausfüllen verschiedener Formulare weiterverwenden zu können. Das Problem: Das Prinzip funktionier
GeoSemantics
What are GeoSemantics? Semantic simply means “meaning”. We are trying to explicitly define the meaning of Ordnance Survey data, and the knowledge about the world of geography that we as an organisation hold. We are encoding it in a way that’s readable, and more importantly, understandable, by a computer: it’s like writing a machine-readable version of Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap real-world object catalogue. Why is Ordnance Survey interested in Semantics? We are investing in semantic technol
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Microformats
Microformats June 27th, 2008 I’ve started work on Microformats here at work in D&PE (@ Microsoft). With the rest of my team, Karsten Januszewski and I are looking to build prototype examples of Microformats as well as develop plug-ins, software, and the like to help foster the adoption of Microformats. I wasn’t familiar with Microformats until recently. As a quick primer, check out http://microformats.org . Here’s what they have to say: Designed for humans first and machines second,
Yahoo SearchMonkey Apps
Joshua Allen wrote an interesting post about how SearchMonkey is disruptive because it could enable semantic Web technologies. Basically the “Semantic Web” is a more meaningful internet (see my post from 2004 for a better description). Internet inhabitants have been trying unsuccessfully to bootstrap the semantic Web for a while. Google has the power to make it happen, but doing so would risk loosing their competitive advantage in Web search. If Google supported semantic Web formats like RDF, p
Web “Green”: Cultivating The Open Web
It’s been a while since I’ve posted about what’s going on in the DiSo community, and I had started to prepare a list of recent developments to share, but on the way I felt that there was a theme I wanted to address first. The DiSo Project is first and foremost about enabling/creating a new category of social-networking-enabled websites, not restricted to the large silos but grown organically at the edges of the web - the small and independent sites that are the forerunners and foundations of t
Orléans : Suivre à Paris les Assises du Numérique avec Eric Besson ?
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Our (so far) flagship app
Business Card makes things easy. While it should be released in the next 2 weeks, there are some things that need to happen in order to make sure our current and future users have a functioning release. For those that have not been acquainted, Business Card makes to-do lists and contacts easy to manage, organize and share. It is one of the many tools we use to sell usability, design and agile psychology. The original idea came from cell phones. More people that I could name at the time had more
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BBC removes hCalendar
便利ねー、とか暢気なことを言っていたらアチラの公共放送よりツッコミが。 ●BBCのhCalendarサポートが中止される件（vantguarde） とりあえず簡単に解説すると、microformatsでは時刻を 24日の朝9時 と書いたりするんですよね。なのでスクリーンリーダーとか音声ブラウザでtitleの中が読み上げられた時に意味不明になると。 title属性にhuman-readableではないテキストを書いてる件。microformatsにはhuman-readableみたいな原則があるのに、見せたくないが為にそれはどうなのよという。 「24日の朝9時」は「西暦2008年6月24日の午前9時（日本時間）」の略語だっていう表現。それはないだろうと。
BBC Removing Microformats
BBC is doing away with microformats. Michael Smethurst explains the reasons, and at the root of all of them is the inaccessibility because of the abbr design pattern. BBC is going to try out RDFa as an alternative. Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats which both humans and machines can read. Microformats were recognized and adopted by certain popular tools and that has made them more popular than the competition. However, this news is going to cause a bit of ripples in the commu
Adding style to your rel attributes with CSS
View the finished example: Adding style to your rel link. There’s a little attribute in HTML links that is starting to get a bit of attention lately. The “rel” attribute is a sparsely defined attribute that applies some meta information about a link’s relationship to other documents. Unfortunately, this information is usually hidden from your users. Let’s take a light-hearted stab at turning it into a visual element. Rel attribute usage While the W3C originally considered the rel attribute t
RDFa vs. Microformats
Die Ankündigung der BBC, alle Microformats die auf den abbr-design-pattern aufbauen, zu entfernen und sich in der Zwischenzeit mit dem Thema RDFa zu beschäftigen… In the meantime we’ll be looking at the possible use of RDFa (a slightly bigger S semantic web technology similar to microformats but without some of the more unexpected side-effects). …wurde von einigen Personen als direkter vergleich zwischen den beiden Formate (zugunsten von RDFa) gesehen und hat eine hitzige Diskussion entfacht.
hForms - Semantische Formulare
Warum sollte nur die Ausgabe ((X)HTML) semantisch anreichern und die Eingabe vernachlässigen? Beim spielen mit dem hCard-Mappers und der Firefox-Microformats-API kam mir die Idee, auch Formulare semantisch auszuzeichnen… In dem Artikel Use the new microformats API in your Firefox 3.0 Extensions beschreibt Rob Crowther wie man mit Hilfe der Firefox-Microformats-API eine hCard speichert um sie zum Ausfüllen verschiedener Formulare weiterverwenden zu können. Das Problem: Das Prinzip funktionier
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How to avoid convergence collision
How to avoid convergence collision 25th June 2008, 10:12 am by Helen Trim At the E-consultancy Future of Digital Media conference last week the focus was on two magic words “relevance” and “engagement”. In Ian Jindal’s stimulating and lively talk he correctly pointed out that marketing hasn’t actually changed much, even though where we choose to communicate our messages may have. Consumers are at saturation point so the only thing left is for companies to get better at attracting customers fro
BBC removes hCalendar Microformat from programmes page
The BBC is removing its Microformats support from its programmes page as they are having a number of concerns over hCalendar’s use of the abbreviation design pattern in regard to accessibility. But at the same time they are also looking into RDFa as a future replacement.
BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of Accessibility Concerns
The BBC have announced that they’ll be removing hCalendar microformats from their online programme listings, because of the accessibility issues with the ABBR design pattern. To summarise the problem: some microformats use the title attribute of an element to store ISO format dates, as machine-readable expansions of dates written in natural language, for example: Meeting to be held on 12 March 1998 from 8:30am EST
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The Major Revolution in Microformats
The Major Revolution in Microformats July 7th, 2008 by Mia Northrop Wouldn’t it be nice if you could take the reviews and ratings of a product from one site and automatically plug it into your blog? Or if you could add contact details from a site straight into your Contacts? Or if adding the details of an event from a website to your Calendar didn’t rely on your having Outlook? Or how about creating one resume that all the job sites can read? This is the promise of microformats and its hReview
Microformats, the BBC and friends
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern. My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the BBC’s take on them. It’s a useful read if you want to catch-up and see where we are. I think the best thing to come out of this is probably that we’re talking abou
Recent Links: June 29 to July 06
Here are the most recent bookmarks that I have saved to Ma.gnolia. Warp “Warp is a [free] preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard. “Warp offers the ability to display a live preview of a space when you move the mouse to the edge of the screen, allowing you to see what you have on another space before actually switching to it. Clicking the preview will then warp you to that space. (Enable this feature by checking the option “Clic
Magische Microformats-Maschine im Einsatz
Microformats sind bekanntlich etwas, das ich sehr spannend und wichtig finde. Warum nicht die Inhalte eines Textes, der sich im Internet befindet, so auszeichnen, dass nicht nur Menschen den Text lesen können, sondern auch Maschinen etwas mit diesem oder jenem Wort anfangen können? Ein kleines bisschen kann jeder Blogger (oder Text-ins-Internet-Bringer) mit wenigen Handgriffen seinen Texten Microformats “beibringen”. Beispiel soll hier das geo-Microformat sein. Mit diesem Microformat kann man g
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/semantic_web_patterns.php TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/3612 Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies Written by Alex Iskold / March 25, 2008 3:20 PM / 32 Comments In this article, we'll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds. In a recent in
Is the New York Times (Becoming) a Software Company?
Nothing is more old news than the good old newspaper from yesterday. Silicon Alley Insider reports on the New York Times' attempt to counter the continued print media decline by establishing new revenue streams through several online initiatives. Marc Frons, chief technology officer of the Times' digital operations, provides cues as to where the company is placing its bets: "Widgets, iPhone apps, APIs, and more." In essence, this means the Times is turning into a software company, applying t
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Links for 2008-07-06
Why the BBC removed Microformat DateTime patterns from bbc.co.uk… [BBC Internet Blog] DateTime design pattern [Microformats wiki] Gestures are the new multi-touch? [Ben Hanbury] Pies are great [Neil McIntosh]
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir
Recently I started writing a weekly blog post for my local CFI affiliate, Freethought Fort Wayne. This week however, instead of my usual blog post, I wanted to direct everyone to Tim Farley’s new blog, Skeptical Software Tools (a site that is definitely going on my blogroll). Tim only has one post of note up as of now, but it’s a doozy chock full of information on harnessing the power of Web 2.0 to promote skepticism. It’s based on a presentation given at The Amazing Meeting 6 a couple of weeke
Getting The Message Out ~or~ How Not To Preach To The Choir
How Web 2.0 works I’m going to forgo my normal weekly blog post here and instead point you to Tim Farley’s new blog Skeptical Software Tools. Tim only has one post of note up as of now, but it’s a doozy chock full of information on harnessing the power of Web 2.0 to promote skepticism. It’s based on a presentation given at The Amazing Meeting 6 a couple of weekends back. In particular, Tim sees the primary goal of the skeptic as battling misinformation, and the internet is an important front
Recently in microformats (July edition)
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Din Neville has been working hard this week, updating the Russian translation of the wiki. Thank you, Din. datetime-design-pattern contains documentation and discussion of alternative patterns to represent dates and times. The parsers page has fallen a little out of date. If you’d like to help update it with links to current available parsers, please hel
Recently in microformats (July edition)
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Din Neville has been working hard this week, updating the Russian translation of the wiki. Thank you, Din. datetime-design-pattern contains documentation and discussion of alternative patterns to represent dates and times. The parsers page has [...]
SearchMonkey Developer Event
Review: SearchMonkey Developer Event at Wallacespace, 2 Dryden Street, Covent Garden, London, England. WC2E 9NA. 18:30 to 20:00 I'd heard quite a lot about SearchMonkey, Yahoo!'s new search platform but not got around to checking it out, so I was hoping this event would be a useful introduction. The evening involved a couple of presentations from Yahoo! developers coupled with free drinks and food - a promising combination! The first presenter (sorry, didn't make a note of the name - a Yahoo!
Open Tech schedule
I’ll be heading up to the University of London tomorrow for Open Tech 2008. The last Open Tech was in 2005 which was, by all accounts, a legendary affair—it led directly to the creation of the ORG. I’ll be speaking about microformats, probably reworking some of the things I was talking about at XTech. It looks like there’ll be quite a lot of discussion around social networks, portability and privacy so I’m going to concentrate on XFN and hCard. Speaking of which, be sure to read Ben’s excellen
BBC removing microformat support
It was sad to read on John Resig's blog that the BBC found the microformat convention of using to denote items like dates negatively impacted usability. The BBC's concerns were: the effect on blind users using screen readers with abbreviation expansion turned on where abbreviations designed for machines would be read out the effect on partially sighted users using screen readers where tool tips of abbreviations designed for machines would be read out the ef
Apple-Adressbuch Kontakte als hCards speichern
Lustro ist ein kleines Tool um die Kontakte aus dem Apple-Adressbuch in die verschiedensten Formate zu exportieren… Keine Ahnung für was ich das “Kontakte to hCards” - Feature benötigen könnte, aber Lustro verarbeitet Microformats also wird drüber gebloggt
Distributed Social Networking on Digital Web
This week’s issue of the excellent Digital Web Magazine leads with an article I’ve written about Distributed Social Networking, published under the title Portable Social Networking: Building Blocks of a Social Web It’s an overview of distributed social networking in a microformats context, explaining how XFN and hCard gives us most of what we need to start exposing users to the benefits of having information made available between different social sites. As well as explaining how to go about
microformats: Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web, an article by Ben Ward in Digital Web Magazine http://icanhaz.com/xfnhcard
microformats: Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web, an article by Ben Ward in Digital Web Magazine http://icanhaz.com/xfnhcard
Microformats
Today I was talking at Cognifide about Microformats. And here is a little summary of what I have said. Microformats are attempts of formating web data using existing markup of XHTML. This is done as wikipedia says: “to allow information intended for end-users (such as contact information, geographic coordinates, calendar events, and the like) to also be automatically processed by software.” These little bits of HTML markup are meant to be both “presentable and parsable” meaning that they add
Online-Marketing-Tools: Microformats und Yahoo SearchMonkey
Online-Marketing-Tools: Microformats und Yahoo SearchMonkey 07.03.2008 by admin in Tipps No Comments → Unternehmen, die Suchmaschinen-Optimierung nutzen, sollten zwei neue Themen auf Ihre Agenda setzen: Microformats und Yahoo! SearchMonkey. Microformats stellen wahrscheinlich einen wichtigen Baustein auf dem Weg zum semantischen Web (Web 3.0) dar, während das System Yahoo! Search Monkey dazu dient, die eigenen Suchmaschinen-Ergebnisse von Yahoo! grafisch und inhaltlich aufzuwerten. Auf
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web
Portable Social Networks, The Building Blocks Of A Social Web. Ben Ward’s tour de force of practical tools and techniques for building out the distributed social web, using XFN and hCard to represent the data. If you only read one article on portable social networks, make it this one.
Why I Don’t Care That Googlebot Can Crawl Flash
While I do not claim to be an SEO guru, and am not a developer, I have been in this space long enough, and have enough web chops to know that the announcement made yesterday by Google and Adobe is not a step forward in the progression of the web. Here is why: 1. The “Because You Can” Syndrome Destroys Lives a. Why do brand marketers and advertisers create experiences online? Well, sometimes it is to do commerce. Other times it is to create engaging platforms to immerse consumers, b
Microformats and what’s wrong with them
I just came from a morning-long presentation on microformats, by André Luís and I must confess I was not very impressed at all. Not by André, who’s a great guy who obviously knows his stuff and managed to make a clear presentation and still fend off some hard questions. I was less-than-impressed by the microformats idea itself. For a while, I couldn’t quite put my finger on what was really wrong with microformats and then it hit me. Microformats reminds me of the mid-90s when people started
Microsoft rachète Powerset : Moteur de recherche Sémantique.
La nouvelle vient d’être confirmée, Microsoft à racheté Powerset, le moteur de recherche sémantique. La rumeur donne un montant de rachat de 100 millions de dollars par Microsoft, alors que Powerset était valorisé il y a quelques temps à 40 millions de dollars. (more…)
microformats: weekly meetup SF dinner reminder: 18:30 tonight, Crepes on Cole. http://pownce.com/t/notes/2627529/ in a diff city? use wiki, organize one!
microformats: weekly meetup SF dinner reminder: 18:30 tonight, Crepes on Cole. http://pownce.com/t/notes/2627529/ in a diff city? use wiki, organize one!
Beginner’s Guide to Discovery – Part II: People vs. Machines
Discovery is a machine-oriented process. While people can access the data being discovered, the focus is on making it easy for machines to access and extract. But when the data is intended for both people and machines developers have to choose between providing it once or offering it in two separate containers. Discovery in Plain Sight The fact that screen scraping drives many useful services means that there is great value for machines to be able to access human-readable data. Microformats o
ANWB.nl revamped
Introduction The past 9 months I have had the pleasure and the privilege to work on one of holland’s biggest websites, ANWB.nl. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot. I also had the pleasure to work with a great team and I thank you guys, you know how you are. As this was the biggest jobs I have ever done, I will take the time to share my experience with you. History ( or why ) ANWB had been working with a custom built cms and it began to show the wear and tear of being used and added to in
RDFa for Semantic MediaWiki [GSoC 2008]
Hello, world! My name is David McCabe, and this summer I am adding RDFa support to Semantic MediaWiki, as part of the Google Summer of Code 2008. I am an undergraduate in Mathematics at Portland State University. For the Google Summer of Code 2006, I wrote Liquid Threads, a MediaWiki extension that replaces talk pages with a threaded discussion system. Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is the software used for the CC wiki and many other wikis. SMW allows authors to mark up wiki pages so that their co
Bookmarks for Jun 30
A daily collection of linky goodness. oohEmbed.com oohEmbed is an oEmbed compatible provider of HTML embed codes for various web sites. Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tags: oembed, proxy Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit v1.0 (Yahoo! Developer Network blog) “Yahoo! this week released a design stencil kit to help designers quickly create mockups for specifications and user testing. Stencil objects have specific meaning and can be incorporated into a design to symbolize a specific kind of module, interaction,
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บาง standard เช่น web standard ในเมืองไทย มันไม่เจริญเพราะหลายอย่าง แต่อย่างหนึ่งที่ผมเห็น และบรรดาหัวหอกหักทั้งหลายอาจไม่รู้ตัวคือ discrimination ครับ ขนาดผมเองเห็นด้วยกับ standard ก็ยังอดหมั่นไส้ไม่ได้ที่มีหลายๆคนที่ "อ้างตัว" ว่าเป็น web standard guru แล้วก็มานั่งด่า IE แล้วลามไปถึงคนใช้ IE แล้วก็เลยไปถึงด่าคนเขียนเว็บใช้ table จัด layout
IE8’s WebSlices - another practical Microformat
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hForms - Semantische Formulare
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GeoSemantics
What are GeoSemantics? Semantic simply means “meaning”. We are trying to explicitly define the meaning of Ordnance Survey data, and the knowledge about the world of geography that we as an organisation hold. We are encoding it in a way that’s readable, and more importantly, understandable, by a computer: it’s like writing a machine-readable version of Ordnance Survey’s MasterMap real-world object catalogue. Why is Ordnance Survey interested in Semantics? We are investing in semantic technol
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Microformats
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Yahoo SearchMonkey Apps
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Web “Green”: Cultivating The Open Web
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BBC removes hCalendar
便利ねー、とか暢気なことを言っていたらアチラの公共放送よりツッコミが。 ●BBCのhCalendarサポートが中止される件（vantguarde） とりあえず簡単に解説すると、microformatsでは時刻を 24日の朝9時 と書いたりするんですよね。なのでスクリーンリーダーとか音声ブラウザでtitleの中が読み上げられた時に意味不明になると。 title属性にhuman-readableではないテキストを書いてる件。microformatsにはhuman-readableみたいな原則があるのに、見せたくないが為にそれはどうなのよという。 「24日の朝9時」は「西暦2008年6月24日の午前9時（日本時間）」の略語だっていう表現。それはないだろうと。
BBC Removing Microformats
BBC is doing away with microformats. Michael Smethurst explains the reasons, and at the root of all of them is the inaccessibility because of the abbr design pattern. BBC is going to try out RDFa as an alternative. Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats which both humans and machines can read. Microformats were recognized and adopted by certain popular tools and that has made them more popular than the competition. However, this news is going to cause a bit of ripples in the commu
Adding style to your rel attributes with CSS
View the finished example: Adding style to your rel link. There’s a little attribute in HTML links that is starting to get a bit of attention lately. The “rel” attribute is a sparsely defined attribute that applies some meta information about a link’s relationship to other documents. Unfortunately, this information is usually hidden from your users. Let’s take a light-hearted stab at turning it into a visual element. Rel attribute usage While the W3C originally considered the rel attribute t
RDFa vs. Microformats
Die Ankündigung der BBC, alle Microformats die auf den abbr-design-pattern aufbauen, zu entfernen und sich in der Zwischenzeit mit dem Thema RDFa zu beschäftigen… In the meantime we’ll be looking at the possible use of RDFa (a slightly bigger S semantic web technology similar to microformats but without some of the more unexpected side-effects). …wurde von einigen Personen als direkter vergleich zwischen den beiden Formate (zugunsten von RDFa) gesehen und hat eine hitzige Diskussion entfacht.
hForms - Semantische Formulare
Warum sollte nur die Ausgabe ((X)HTML) semantisch anreichern und die Eingabe vernachlässigen? Beim spielen mit dem hCard-Mappers und der Firefox-Microformats-API kam mir die Idee, auch Formulare semantisch auszuzeichnen… In dem Artikel Use the new microformats API in your Firefox 3.0 Extensions beschreibt Rob Crowther wie man mit Hilfe der Firefox-Microformats-API eine hCard speichert um sie zum Ausfüllen verschiedener Formulare weiterverwenden zu können. Das Problem: Das Prinzip funktionier
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How to avoid convergence collision
How to avoid convergence collision 25th June 2008, 10:12 am by Helen Trim At the E-consultancy Future of Digital Media conference last week the focus was on two magic words “relevance” and “engagement”. In Ian Jindal’s stimulating and lively talk he correctly pointed out that marketing hasn’t actually changed much, even though where we choose to communicate our messages may have. Consumers are at saturation point so the only thing left is for companies to get better at attracting customers fro
BBC removes hCalendar Microformat from programmes page
The BBC is removing its Microformats support from its programmes page as they are having a number of concerns over hCalendar’s use of the abbreviation design pattern in regard to accessibility. But at the same time they are also looking into RDFa as a future replacement.
BBC Rejects hCalendar Microformat Because Of Accessibility Concerns
The BBC have announced that they’ll be removing hCalendar microformats from their online programme listings, because of the accessibility issues with the ABBR design pattern. To summarise the problem: some microformats use the title attribute of an element to store ISO format dates, as machine-readable expansions of dates written in natural language, for example: Meeting to be held on 12 March 1998 from 8:30am EST
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