The microformats.org community recently celebrated its 5th birthday – five plus years of openly researching, creating, and iterating on web standards to express common semantics designed for humans first, machines second. Two Billion pages with hCards Originally brainstormed in September 2004, and rapidly adopted by numerous tools, sites, large and small, the number of pages published with [...]
The first quarter of this year has seen Google really make tracks with Rich Snippets, which they announced back in May of last year, with microformat implementions popping up in results for all manner of content. hCalendar One of the original, and certainly most obviously useful formats, hCalendar has made major head-roads in being adopted across [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve posted a “This Week in Microformats”, and September was a particularly active month for microformats: new hResume and hCard implementations beautiful hCards, MySpace hCards new tutorials and developments new hResume and hCard implementations Madgex’s brand new hResume importer powers the Guardian UK’s recently launched Guardian Jobs CV Match service. The site YIID (Your [...]
One month later, I wanted to share some observations about microformatsDevCamp and my thoughts about why it was so successful. Clearly, it all begins and ends with the people who participate: we were thrilled to have several dozen developers and designers drop in over two days. Over thirty folks went further and donated at the door, [...]
One month later, I wanted to share some observations about microformatsDevCamp and my thoughts about why it was so successful. Clearly, it all begins and ends with the people who participate: we were thrilled to have several dozen developers and designers drop in over two days. Over thirty folks went further and donated at the door, [...]
One month later, I wanted to share some observations about microformatsDevCamp and my thoughts about why it was so successful. Clearly, it all begins and ends with the people who participate: we were thrilled to have several dozen developers and designers drop in over two days. Over thirty folks went further and donated at the door, [...]
At our recent 4th birthday party, we started planning the first microformatsDevCamp — and we’re glad to report that it’s come together quite nicely! Developers, designers, and all sorts of other microfolk are welcome to pitch in during this coming weekend, July 25-26, at one extremely cool venue: Automattic HQ, off of Pier 38 on the Embarcadero in San [...]
At our recent 4th birthday party, we started planning the first microformatsDevCamp — and we’re glad to report that it’s come together quite nicely! Developers, designers, and all sorts of other microfolk are welcome to pitch in during this coming weekend, July 25-26, at one extremely cool venue: Automattic HQ, off of Pier 38 on the Embarcadero in San [...]
The recent microformats momentum from the introduction of the value-class-pattern and Google & Yelp’s support continues with the launch of Yahoo Placemaker™, an update to Optimus, the open source microformats validator, and a browser button that makes it easy to one-click validate your microformats. Yahoo Placemaker Beta supports geo and adr microformats Congratulations to Yahoo on their [...]
The recent microformats momentum from the introduction of the value-class-pattern and Google & Yelp’s support continues with the launch of Yahoo Placemaker™, an update to Optimus, the open source microformats validator, and a browser button that makes it easy to one-click validate your microformats. Yahoo Placemaker Beta supports geo and adr microformats Congratulations to Yahoo on their [...]
It's a big week for microformats as Google launch ‘Rich Snippets’ into their main search engine. Regular users are starting to see great benefits of published structured data.
It's a big week for microformats as Google launch ‘Rich Snippets’ into their main search engine. Regular users are starting to see great benefits of published structured data.
The value-class-pattern solves two of the three most challenging issues that microformats have encountered in their entire history: accessibility and localization. After many long months of focused iterating (repeatedly researching, brainstorming, testing, documenting) led by Ben Ward, the value-class-pattern alpha draft is ready to use and support. Publish and implement Several publishers have already started using the value-class-pattern, [...]
Thank you to everyone for being patient whilst I ran the MediaWiki upgrade this evening. It took a little longer than hoped thanks to very slow database migration scripts, but the microformats wiki is now live again, and back to full read-write access. There’s a lot to say about the process of the redesign, which I’ll [...]
Updated: 17th November, 00:31 (GMT-8). As announced on the -discuss mailing list earlier this week, the microformats wiki is due a big upgrade. That’s going to be happening over the next few hours, so the wiki will be read-only for a (hopefully short) while whilst backups are taken and upgrade scripts run. Afterward, the wiki will be [...]
‘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 [...]
This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki We’ve documented machine data usage in microformats (date and time formats, geographic locations, keywords in certain formats). The page is a quick reference for all the formats we specify, the all the current [...]
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Toby Inkster has compiled a document on transforming XFN into FOAF On the µf-Discuss mailing list Talk about how to use agent in hCard with hAtom to mark up journal entries On the web The quite excellent [...]
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the µf-Discuss mailing list Lots of discussion this week about standardising the representation of hCard in JSON. Currently parsers tend to produce sensible but subtly different objects, this is an effort to make it all [...]
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a summary of notable microformats activity from the mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki New profiles have been produced for more microformats. These can be optionally placed in the head element of a page to indicate the use of particular microformats. We’ve reorganised the wiki todo list, so it [...]
‘This Week in Microformats’ is a weekly summary of notable microformats activity from mailing lists, wiki, events and the wider web. On the wiki Along with the revival of our ‘This Week in Microformats’ posts, they are now drafted live and in public on the wiki. You can make your own contributions for next week’s post. [...]
The Web is by far the most successful medium in history for the open publishing and sharing of content. Focusing efforts to promote and enable open content on the Web first and foremost (rather than say, proprietary data warehouses and corporate databases) thus has the greatest enabling effect for open content in general. Textual content [...]
Creative Commons (CC) pioneered broad awareness of the need and value of open content publishing and sharing. By providing a set of licenses that let authors clearly choose how and under what conditions to make their content freely available, CC also made it easier. Open content is dependent on the formats used to publish it [...]
Today we are changing the microformats wiki to require that all contributions be placed into the public domain. This means that any page created, or any content added to the microformats wiki from here forward is placed into the public domain for maximum possible reuse. We take these steps to make the microformats open standards [...]
It’s been two years since we threw the switch and launched microformats.org. In year two the community has accomplished some incredible results. So many that I can’t hope to list them all. You’ll just have to check the wiki changes for yourself ;) Here are five (mostly quite recent) items of note [...]
It’s certainly old news by now, (since when are we on the cutting edge here?) but there’s a book out dedicated entirely to microformats. Written by John Allsopp and published by Friends of Ed, Microformats: Empowring Your Markup for Web 2.0 covers everything you need to know about microformats, from how they’re built (the process) to [...]
The Web 2.0 Expo is taking place at Moscone West on 747 Howard Street in San Francisco, California from April 15th to 18th. Microformats will be well represented. John Allsopp, author of the newly published Microformats book from Friends of ED, is scheduled to speak on Tuesday. John’s presentation is called Microformats, Much More Than Just [...]
The microformats community is growing extremely fast. New people are joining the mailing lists and wiki every day and contributing their work towards a better authored web. In light of this growth, we’ve added a new mailing list, called ‘microformats-new‘, which is now the best venue for talking about the development of new formats. The reason we [...]
A bumper round up of new microformats implementations, mailling list activity, wiki additions and highlights from the web‑at‑large from 4th–17th December 2006.
A quick-fire round up of the microformats world this week; major mailing list discussions, major wiki activity and microformat-related discussion from the web at large.
A quick-fire round up of what's happened in the microformats world this week; new implementations, major mailing list discussions and microformat-related discussion from the web at large.
As reported by Chris Messina, Apple’s dotMac team has added hCard support to their webmail application. Despite recently canceling my dotMac account, I think this is important news because it highlights a use case of microformats which many have not recognized. Up until now, most usage of hCard has been people publically publishing contact information. Putting it [...]