In the midst of a year of considerable upheaval at Yahoo! (or so it would appear from the outside) their developers continue to impress with cool new stuff. Most recently, Microsearch, an experimental search engine that in addition to traditional search techniques, extracts microformats and other metadata (RDF and RDFa) from pages to help improve […]
Welcome SUN JavaOne attendees
The JavaONE website links to this page regarding Microformats. If you are interested in more, see “Know your Microformats” - a guide to each of the main microformats, or read my book, the first published on microformats.
Back from two weeks of relaxation in Thailand with my lovely family. Every now and then […]
The tech editor of my microformats book, microformats pioneer, and great guy Brian Suda has a detailed tutorial on microformats published by Sitepoint today.
It covers using hCard for contacts, hCalendar for events, and what’s going on right now with microformats.
Brian is also the author of the O’Reilly shortcuts series PDF book on microformats, the developer […]
The fantastic SIMILE project (Semantic Interoperability of Metadata and Information in unLike Environments) from MIT, has among other things a Timeline widget for displaying event details on a timeline (think of it as maps for time).
Now, you can mashup hCalendar marked up events with SIMILE thanks to this cool project from Simone Onofri
Amazing - check […]
Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics
Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies (this article)
Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics
The aim of these articles is to delve more deeply into than nature of “real world” HTML semantics - to investigate where the semantics of HTML comes from, and in future may come from, and categorize the different […]
Push bikes make pretty attractive targets for thieves. They can be very expensive, have pretty good resale value, they are usualy impossible to identify at a glance, they are often left in public places, and ironically they are their own getaway vehicle. People sell stolen bikes, as well, of course, as legitimately second hand bikes […]
Catching up with some of the events and cool stuff of the last couple of weeks, I see that over at left LOGiC, they’ve (sorry, don’t have a name other than Remy I can find to attribute this to) published a bookmarklet which extracts and displays hCards and hCalendars on a page. It is one […]
Last year for a certain conference which will remain nameless, (ok, so it was WE05) Tantek Çelik (is Tantek like Madonna, Prince and Sting, and really doesn’t need a surname?), who spoke at the conference as well, very kindly helped us mark up our entire program in hCalendar. This was particularly cool as
1. I am […]
My book on Microformats, out now, at Amazon at 33% off
I also organize Web Directions North - January 28 - Feb 2 2008