Digital Web Magazine Interview with John Allsopp
For anyone who is interesting in another facet of “Web 2.0″, there’s an interview with microformat expert John Allsopp on Digital Web Magazine.
What are microformats, you ask? They’re one small part of that whole Web 2.0 thing, and the idea is to format certain types of data (contact information, dates and calendars, resumes, the list goes on) so that it’s easy for people and applications to make sense of them. Much like web standards for (X)HTML and CSS, they’re guidelines for formatting information so that in the future, any data put on the web can be easily categorized, thus making it easier to find.
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Another perspective on Microformats can be had by checking out POSH (Plain Old Semantic Html )
Yahoo! and Yahoo! owned, Flickr are adopting the hcard, hcalendar and hreview. Flickr also supports XFN.
Yahoo! and Microformat Links:
http://ylocalblog.com/blog/2006/06/21/we-now-support-microformats/
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2006/05/03/589642.aspx