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hCards at facebook

If you have a facebook account, you can now add hCards to your profile page courtesy of this Application from Eran Sandler (whose day job is at Yedda, which I mentioned a while back here).
Nice work Eran
[tags]microformats, facebook, hcard, eran sandler, yedda[/tags]

Dopplr hCard imports

Dopplr is a new web service I got an invite to a few weeks back that does something seemingly simple, yet gives ride to interesting stuff. You tell it where you are going and when, and who your “fellow travelers” are, and you can then see who you know will be in the same place […]

NetNewsWire does Microformats

I hear a whisper that NetNewsWire, my feedreader of choice for some years now does microformats (well, at least in the 3.0 betas)
Chris Messina has posted a couple of screenshots

to get your appetite whetted. Great to se in app support for Microformats move beyond Firefox.
This is very exciting to see. I wonder whether Newsgator stablemate […]

Create a beautiful (h)Resume

Coming soon, Resolio will let you create as stylish, XHTML/CSS standards based resume, which uses hResume for its markup.
Can’t wait.
[tags]microformats, hResume, resolio[/tags]

Keep an eye on Kupa

I am not sure what our South African friends at Stii are cooking up with Kupa, but I want to know more.

The word kupa comes from the Xhosa word kupha (its actually pronounced kupa and not kufa) which means “share”. This is a big part of what microformats is about. It enables applications to share […]

microformats from around the web

A couple of new uses of microformats have been brought to my attention recently.
Lawrence Meckan who develops the augustRoyal Australasian College of Surgeons website dropped me a line to let me know that when you search for a surgeon, the results are returned as hCards.
Yaniv Golan from the knowledge sharing site “Yedda” let me know […]

Smooth Operator

I’ve seen the future of web browsing, and it is Operator. Well at least when it comes to microformatted and (potentially other kinds of) structured and meta data. I think it is really exciting.
Operator, by IBM’s Michael Kaply is a Firefox Extension, which adds a toolbar that enables actions on the microformatted content in a […]

Sweet Safari bookmarklet to grab micrformats

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 […]

geopress - add geo marked up maps to wordpress with no coding

Geopress is a newly announced plug in for wordpress, which allows users to quickly and easily embed location information in blog posts. It uses the adr and geo microformats, and all without coding! I’ve not played with it yet, but will definitely be checkking it out soon, as I’ve mashup up quite a few maps […]

Microformats in travel at Trayle

I’ve not had time to really take a detailed look at this, but Richard Osinga dropped me a line to let me know abbout Trayle, a travel focussed site, very web 2.0, with a maps (microsoft!) mashup, and user generated reviews, travel blogs and so on. Trayle features “microformats, like geotags, hReview”, and looks like […]