Free library written in .NET providing support for the Semantic WEB. Technologies or formats such as FOAF, APML, SIOC, XFN tags and microformats are some of the building blocks of the social aspects of the semantic web. Now use them in your .NET application!
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Discussion and details about the hCard microformat, which is used to add semantics and structure to web content about people, organizations, companies and places. Includes code samples, benefits and explanations of the various properties and sub-properties.
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The XFN microformat for representing social, human relationships with the rel attribute. Includes code samples, benefits and explanations of the various relationship values that can be used.
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Microformats for link-based relationships using the rel attribute. Includes code samples, benefits and explanations of rel-home, rel-me, rel-tag and rel-license microformats.
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Introductory article to a series focusing on specific microformat implementations on a personal blog. Includes some background on microformats, as well as links to resources for hCard, hAtom, rel-home, rel-tag, rel-license, rel-me, hCalendar and XFN.
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Provide value - easy to use as changes are only done in the presentation layer (read: HTML markup) but benefits go beyond adding enhanced markup... and others reasons why...
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Microformats é uma serie de especificações com o objetivo de tornar os dados da internet mais legíves para pessoas e sistemas inserindo meta informações nos arquivos html, os microformats mais conhecidos são hCard, hCalendar, rel-license, rel-nofollow e rel-tag.
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Blogger by default, and other blogging software such as WordPress, automatically adds the "nofollow" microformat extension to all links from user generated content. User generated content is defined as comments or external sources such as linkbacks and trackbacks.
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Google started to use the Social Graph API to suggest links that can be added to your public Google Profile. If you add links to sites that are connected to other sites using FOAF or the XFN microformat, Google makes it easy to import all the links. For example, if you have an account at FriendFeed, add a link to your FriendFeed page to import the
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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.
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From the site: "We’re going to build a map of some of my favourite restaurants in Brighton. Fitting with the principles of unobtrusive JavaScript, we’ll start with a semantically marked up list of restaurants, then use JavaScript to add the map, look up the restaurant locations and plot them as markers."
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Weave syncs your Firefox experience across multiple devices on different platforms; you get the same user experience on any machine with the tool. The latest version syncs Bookmarks, History, Cookies, Saved Passwords, Saved Form Data, Tabs and future plans include synched Extensions / Themes, Search Plugins and Microformats.
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Microformats burst onto the scene a couple of years ago and are fast becoming an essential tool for all professional web designers and developers.
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What are microformats? How does a microformat look like? Why should you use microformats? The article answers all that questions giving you a short overview on the whole microformat subject.
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FriendNet is a plugin for Yahoo! Search. FriendNet leverages microformats indexed by Yahoo! Search to make embedded user profiles and social connections visible. FriendNet also turns Yahoo! Search into a social graph walker.
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People are reporting that Mozilla Weave is inaccessible. The web interface isn't accepting authentication either. Looks like the major update that includes synchronizing tabs, extensions, themes, search plugins and microformats should be coming today or at least soon :)
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BBC removes hCalendar and abbreviation design pattern.
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proiect de traducere a documentatiei pt microformate in limba romana . la inceput de drum ...
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A quick and easy way to take data from another website, and display and format it on your own to create custom mashups
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The Firefox 3.0 release has support for microformats in the form of an API that you can access from a Firefox extension. Follow an example of how to use this API from within your extension code. Take a skeleton Hello World extension and give it the ability to store an hCard from a Web page and then use that stored hCard to populate a Web form.
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simple overview including pros+cons
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Discover what Semantic Web standards can do for your current or next Web site project. In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement a semantic URI scheme, the conceptual structure of the pages of your Web site, and how to apply microformats and RDFa to your markup to add semantic value to your Web pages.
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Compound microformats is a way to express more complex data on the semantic web. Great demonstrations of how it works.
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Now the Firefox 3 has reached the release candidate stage, we’re left wondering: where are the microformats tools? The answer, according the Michael Kaply, developer of the Operator plugin, which offers some microformats tools, is that an API exists in Firefox 3, but there’s no user interface available.
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Article covering the most common misconceptions about microformats.
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FriendsofED Microformats Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0
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Digg announced today that it has added semantic markup to fields throughout its site as well as adding support for a handful of key microformats. By adding RDFa and DublinCore markup to news item pages, Digg will now make its content far more searchable by semantically aware search engines.Combined with microformats that will structure...
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Social news site Digg announced today that it has added semantic markup to fields throughout its site as well as adding support for a handful of key microformats. By adding RDFa and DublinCore markup to news item pages, Digg will now make its content far more searchable by semantically aware search engines
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There's plenty of SEO books on the market, but Findable Websites goes further than these books into the whole area of making your website understandable not only to search engines, but readers as well. The material covered is quite broad: from CSS image replacement to micro-formats to SEO for WordPress.
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Microformats are becoming more and more prevalent. Recently even Mahalo put in place some POSH enhancements to their site.
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With browser plugin it's now easier to get additional information about a person, place or event
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With browser plugin it's now easier to get additional information about a person, place or event
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MicroRevie.ws, a service that collects reviews from Twitter and turns them into Microformats.
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In this article you're going to create a JavaScript badge that can be added to any site and which will display relationship data from a service which exposes it (Twitter, in this particular example.)
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Microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. But what do they mean to the mobile world? This article gives an introduction to microformats and elaborates upon mobile uses.
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As a supporter of microformats, I want to provide you some amazingly easy ways to add them to your blog. To kick this off, I'm going to tell you how you can turn your WordPress or Blogger blogroll into a list of hCards in less than 2 minutes!
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You've probably heard some of the buzzwords floating around the internet regarding the future of the web: The Semantic Web, Web 3.0, microformats, data portability, and 'open' followed by just about every word in the dictionary. This article examines and discuss current web trends and where they may lead.
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Yahoo recently announced that it will begin formally supporting microformats and other semantic Web standards. Site owners can markup pages with microformats like hCard, hCalendar, hReview, hAtom and XFN to the HTML code on a page, or create structured feeds using RDF (resource definition framework).
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Yesterday, Yahoo! announced that it had begun using microformats on its European shopping search engine Kelkoo. Specifically, Yahoo! Europe pushed out the biggest deployment yet of the draft hListing format, which is a new format used for marking up classifieds listings.The actual number of hListing's Yahoo! put out there was 26,456,448
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Microformats are small formatting pieces designed to make your data easier to read by both users and software. Although their use is not widespread, it’s important that every web developer becomes familiar with them, as they’re sure to be an integral part of the web’s future.
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How can microformats and social networks continue to change the web?
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Yahoo today has announced that soon it will support microformats and other semantic web standards. This move seems to have come as part of Yahoo's ever growing initiative towards a more open search platform.Could Yahoo make semantic web standards the biggest change in the Internet ?
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microformats could be in trouble
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What Twitter is, soome suggestions for how to use it, and a potted guide to microformats.
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At the Supernova workshops today, Yahoo! Local announced that it now supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats "on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews." There will be a lot more aggregation services popping up to take advantage of microformatted data.
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In this article you're going to create a JavaScript badge that can be added to any site and which will display relationship data from a service which exposes it (Twitter, in this particular example.
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Michael Kaply, developer of the excellent Firefox extension, Operator, has released version 0.9g, a release candidate for 0.9. For those who don’t know Operator - it’s a toolbar which provides lots of functionality for extracting and viewing microformatted content on web pages.
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This presentation was held at GeekMeet #2 in Cluj Napoca on March 1st 2008. It’s a brief history of SEO from the beginning of the WWW all the way to RDF, Microformats and SPARQL.
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Among the 'exciting' new features of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 8 (IE 8) is something called 'Activities' (which as many open source browser users know really is just a form of the microformats standards that Firefox already supports).
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Using the new "Activities" XML feature in IE8, users can right-click on any page and "ADD TO DIGG". Check out the screenshot on Microsoft's site! Other new IE8 features: Atom feeds in normal web pages using Microformats, Data URI support (fast page renders), CSS2.1 fully supports, and of course, tons of bug fixes...
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Christian Scholz explains the importance of microformats and the possible approaches to improve its support in Plone.
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You have probably already heard about Microformats. You’ve probably also wondered what they are. This article explains them in a simple easy to understand way.
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Extracting the data is easier than you think - The microformat for describing relationships between people. I will look briefly at what it is and the basic markup needed to add the information to your sites, before then going into depth, looking at the benefits you can get from that data by extracting it and using it in different ways.
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Plugin for wordpress to display avatars using microformats.
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Wordpress by default, just like other blogging platforms, has automatically been adding the “nofollow” microformat extension to all links from user generated content such as comments and trackbacks. To support the growing rejection of NoFollow for blog comments, I have compiled this list of plugins that help you remove nofollow from your blog
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A new method for embedding meaning to existing HTML content is getting attention from the likes of Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft, and most importantly DOESN'T break web standards!
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An introduction to microformats: what they are, why we need them and how to use them.An overview on the technologies involved in "semantic web" and "Semantic Web" and how to go from Web of documents to Web of databases (relationships).
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"In order to maintain the current ship schedule for Firefox 3, we won't be exposing microformatted content in the user interface." - Alex FaaborgDang, I was looking forward to this.
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In an interview from Open Media Web, Tantek Çelik, the man behind Microformats and a host of other great ideas, touts the Digg content model as a way of circumventing content ownership issues. Interesting commentary in the accompanying Wired article as well.
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Create simple, pragmatic formats for the semantic WebMicroformats are a new way to embed structured data within standard XHTML code. Discover how to read and write the new microformats for the Web.
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DontTrustThisGuy.com is my blog, I rewrote wordpress to use a bunch of different types of microformats in smart ways. The design also uses some CSS2 psuedo-selectors, and new CSS3 features to create some decorative elements without unnecessary markup. I plan to release a microformat rich wordpress template for public use soon to follow.
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While microformat support on the browser side would certainly increase their potential usefulness, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of interesting things you can do using the tools available today.
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Simon Willison just doesn't stop. This time he has added a way that details the technique of unobtrusively mapping microformats with jQuery.
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In this webinar, Ryan King, co-founder of Microformats.org, will present an overview of microformats and review the technology behind them, the design principles guiding their creation, and the types of microformats currently available. After covering this background, he will zero-in on hResume, a microformat for publishing resumes/CVs online.
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Nine points of potential discussion regarding optimal use and organization of CSS. Topics include CSS frameworks, microformats, ASP.NET and CSS, and organization vs. performance..
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Simon Willison gets practical with microformats and the jQuery JavaScript library to demonstrate how data can be unobtrusively extracted from a page and plotted on a slippy map (like the ones we built the other day). See – it all links up. We think about this stuff.
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'DOD is recognizing they don't need to reinvent the wheel for the Nth time; they want to use what's already out there,' she said during a presentation titled, 'A Lightweight Approach to Building the Department of Defense's Semantic Web: Can Mashups Bring the 'Wild, Wild Web' to the Warfighter?'
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Excerpt: "I have the feeling that a little something is missing in the Semantic Web as it is today. Both RDF and microformats aims to normalize data so that websites can communicate between each others. It would be a big step forward, similar to the invention of writing if you’d like, the Semantic Web becoming..."
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As we move in a world of XHTML, CSS, AJAX, Microformats, Semantic Web, etc. You may think that tables are only used to display… well… tabular data, no you are wrong! Take a look at this list of top sites from Alexa and see who are still in the middle age of web design. Here I am looking only at the home page of every site
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XHTML was created to allow the meaning behind what you read on web sites to be shared universally with other applications. It's been an ivory tower ideal, but all XHTML has done is created more work, pointless egos validated through XHTML, and false perceptions we contribute to a bigger cause.Microformats changes it all.
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The Safari Microformats plugin notifies you when the author of the website has published Microformats and allows you to easily import hCards and hCalendars in Address Book and iCal.
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Though there exists a CSS solution to do the same thing, this particular SIMBL plugin for Safari adds a configurable and intuitive microformats utility. One thing which may get annoying is the constant popping up of the "warning" window once a lot of websites start embracing microformats on every post or page.
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Dopplr now supports hcard import from other social networks like Twitter that support microformats! The photo shows the results, while the rest of the photoset is very useful for getting an idea of how to add your hcard formated address books to your myriad profiles in the ever growing social networking sites.
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Describes a technique that uses MicroFormats for getting user data from their profile on an external site (e.g. Flickr, last.fm, etc) and getting it into a registration form on your site.
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For us geeks, a pretty cool mashup about climate change happenning in Bangladesh, but also around the world. It uses Flickr, Google Maps, Twitter, and some microformats.
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At the Defrag Conference, Kevin Marks from Google gave a presentation on OpenSocial. Before working at Google, Kevin was Principal Engineer at Technorati. He's also well known as one of the founders of microformats.
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For years I’ve been advocating the use of valid, semantic, accessible, well-structured HTML. It’s a bit of a mouthful to say, but thanks to an acronym being coined on the Microformats IRC channel almost seven months ago, I can now shorten that to POSH instead.POSH, in case you haven’t heard of it already, is short for “Plain Old Semantic HTML”
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A list of some of the arguments why RDFa is better than Microformats (at least microformats.org-style microformats).
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Plain and simple reasons as to why Microformats will never replace RDF or be part of the Semantic Web.
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As explained on microformats.org, “Microformats are small bits of HTML that represent things like people, events, tags, etc. in web pages.” This article explains why microformats should be used on any website.
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So why should you start using the hCard format? Like most SEO best practices - for the limited amount of time needed to make the necessary changes and the possibility of future adaptation and acceptance, it can’t hurt.
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A critical piece of the next web evolution is the introduction of structured information. This article examines the key drivers, such as the rise of APIs and vertical applications that run on top of existing data, an increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats, and more.
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Long ago, Jon Udell introduced me to the idea of using class attributes in HTML tags to add semantic information to Web content. The goal is a simpler way to make searching better without the overhead of hiring a...
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The connected Web gets even more connected as hundreds of millions ofmicroformatted pieces of content spread across the Web. Is ubiquity comingsoon?
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Easily transform your microformatted content to nice, clean, easily digestible, XML, JSON or JSON-P. You can also easily set filters to only receive particular formats.Now your web site could really be your API with goodness of microformats and power of Optimus.
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Lists the top resources for learning and applying microformats to your sites.The best part of microformats is not only that the information is human-readable, but it can also be extracted and processed automatically by machines or software. The primary distinguishing trait of a microformats-enabled HTML page is that it has semantic meaning.
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An overview of how to integrate microformats into your WordPress theme.
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I would like to take this opportunity to announce that I have created a usable [although beta] release of a generic Microformat parser for .Net. I don't know of any other frameworks that easily allow you to find Microformats in an html/XML stream that are specifically built for .Net, so I believe that this project is a first.
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Since I am attending dConstruct this Friday, I thought it was time the Microformats Bookmarklet received an upgrade. You can now use the Microformats bookmarklet in IE6 and IE7 as you would in Safari and Firefox.
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A realistic viewpoint on microformats and the "open social graph"
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An excellent list of podcasts episodes, speeches and interviews about design. From how to get inspiration to the importance of Microformats... And one of the best things, you can throw everything in your iPod and enjoy them while you're exercising. That means, both your body and your brain can get a work out.
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This is the first in a series of articles which aims to survey the issue of semantics in current web design and development (for the HTML based web, not the “Semantic Web”). The goals are to further understand the way in which semantics are currently added to today’s web, either “formally” (through the use of “semantic” HTML, or microformats) or le
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A cool Microformats tool
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Great intro to microformats, on their way in Firefox 3, and sure to effect your Googlejuice any time now. Early adopters jump on this - great breakdown of working microformats into the popular and oh so hip cutline theme for wordpress
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Operator is an extension for Firefox that adds the ability to interact with semantic data on web pages, including microformats, RDFa and eRDF.
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Informative article on the role of microformats in the development of the semantic web. Includes an in-depth look at microformats support in Firefox 3 and the Firefox extension Operator.
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Firefox 3 and Internet Explorer 8 will both support Microformats. Google and Yahoo have also integrated them into some of their services. Find out what you need to know right here.
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The vCard standard, has been broadly interoperably implemented (e.g. Apple's "Address Book" application built into MacOSX). In addition, many bloggers identify themselves by name and discuss their friends and family.
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Cheat Sheets for Actionscript, Ajax, Apache, ASCII Character Codes, ASP, C# and VB.NET, CSS, CVS, C++, Django, Firefox, Google, HTML/XHTML, Java, JavaScript, LaTeX, Microformats, Misc, MySQL, Oracle, Perl, Photoshop/Gimp, PHP, Python, Regular Expressions, Ruby, Unix/Linux, Weblog, Windows and XML.
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